The Land In Winter wins the 2025 Walter Scott Prize
12th June, 2025
Andrew Miller has won the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel The Land In Winter, which is set in a remote English community during the long, hard winter of 1962/63. The Prize’s definition of ‘historical’ is a book set at least 60 years ago, meaning Miller’s novel fell just within the… Read More »
Shortlist Spotlight: Kevin Barry
5th June, 2025
Our final Shortlist Spotlight is with Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter. Q: How do you feel about being shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction? Do you consider yourself an historical novelist? I work in different forms and different modes all the time so I suppose I define myself by… Read More »