Berk Worms 2026 - Current Bestseller

Welcome to our Berk Worms 🐛 book club. Each month we all aim to read the same book from a particular genre and then meet to discuss it. We also then talk about other books we are reading. All are welcome!

Our book for discussion in March is the current bestseller and award nominated novel and ⭐ Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ⭐, and
⭐ the Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ⭐ by Andrew Miller called ‘**The Land in Winter’ **written in October, 2024. It runs at approximately 384 pages and is available in all formats including Kindle and Audio Book.

About the novel for Discussion:

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.
WHERE DO YOU HIDE WHEN YOU CAN'T LEAVE HOME? AND WHERE, IN A FROZEN WORLD, CAN YOU RUN TO?

Critical views:

‘Graceful, atmospheric, enormously satisfying'
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, BOOKER JUDGE 2025

'I love The Land in Winter so much... It's really, really, really, really good'
GILLIAN ANDERSON

'A classic in the making'
ELIZABETH DAY

'Both funny and terrifying: Miller at his best'
ROSE TREMAIN

'One of the best writers at work today'
TELEGRAPH

'Has an uncanny beauty and depth'
GUARDIAN

'Money, class, love: all of life is in there'
SUNDAY TIMES

Reading ahead with the BERKWORMS

14 April 2026: a Novel turned into a Film. We will be reading The Women in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware:
May: 19th Century Classic

Happy reading, 🐛Cazza