The Land in Winter
British novelist, born 1960. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2011 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2025.
The Land in Winter is a 2024 novel by Andrew Miller. It won the Walter Scott Prize in 2025.
In historical fiction, family saga
On 2 of the 10 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Andrew Miller
- First published
- 2024
- Length
- 384 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2025
- Walter Scott Prize winner, 2025
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Family saga, Class and society
Is The Land in Winter worth reading?
2 of the 10 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Walter Scott Prize and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2025) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2025) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of The Land in Winter
The edition we link to is the Sceptre paperback (2025), 384 pages.
- Publisher
- Sceptre (paperback, 2025)
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9781529354300
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Land in Winter
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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