We are delighted to welcome Andrew Miller to the Authors’ Club to talk about his novel,  The Land in Winter, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY.

Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He’s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that’s already faltering.

But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.

A book of the year for the Independent, Guardian and i Newspaper‘

Has an uncanny beauty and depth… A novel that travels into the darkest places of history and the strangest corners of the human mind’
Guardian

‘Incredibly satisfying’ Financial Times

Andrew Miller’s first novel, Ingenious Pain (1997) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm’s Song. His latest novel, The Land in Winter, won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025.

To book please contact the booking office at bookings@nlc.org.uk or call 020 7968 0912.

The two-course lunch, followed by coffee, costs £39. It’s in the Lady Violet Room and we start with drinks at 12:30pm.  Please book early and inform the club of any dietary requirements.