Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and winner of the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Andrew Miller's novel The Land In Winter, set in a remote English community during the big freeze of 1963, explores the secrets and longings between two neighbouring couples as their lives begin to unravel, as set against a backdrop of the aftermath and traumas of the second world war. He talks to Daniel Hahn.

Andrew Miller’s novels have been published in translation in over 20 countries. Ingenious Pain (1997) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Oxygen was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; his other works include The Optimists; Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011; and The Slowworm’s Song.