Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025

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The Land in Winter

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Walter Scott · 2025 · Winner

For its luminous, precise account of a Royalist soldier's winter of uncertainty during the English Civil War.

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Alistair Moffat
Rosemary Goring
Stuart Kelly

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Announcement Date: June 20, 2025