Congratulations to Booker Prize nominee

Award-winning novelist Andrew Miller’s latest book The Land in Winter has been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and has also won the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

The Somerset-based author, who is an Associate of Wells Festival of Literature,  appeared at the 2022 Festival where he spoke of his then new novel The Slowworm’s Song, a soldier’s examination of shame and guilt in the decades since his army service in Northern Ireland.

The Land in Winter, set in the West Country in December 1962, is described as a dazzling chronicle of the human heart. Two couples find their lives unravelling as a blizzard forces them to remain at home with nowhere to hide from the secrets that lie beneath the surface.

Miller was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001 and the Whitbread Novel Award for Oxygen, and has won numerous other awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1997 for Ingenious Pain, and the  2011 Costa Novel Award for Pure.