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Author Andrew Miller has won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction after being shortlisted twice for the award in the past.
He was announced as the winner at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, taking the £25,000 prize.
His work, The Land In Winter, only just fell into the contest's definition of a historical novel as being set at least 60 years ago.
It tells the story of a remote English community during a long, hard winter between 1962 and 1963.
