This week's main read completes NUBClub's tour of the 2025 Booker Short List with Andrew Miller's domestic historic drama, The Land in Winter. Our subread also takes us back to Europe's past with Daniel Kraus's Angel Down, a story of WW1 soldiers finding an angel in the trenches.

The novel worked as a commentary on the Arab Spring, but how much we each liked it depended on what we felt about the rest of the uneven worldbuilding.

A mixed response to this novel from NUBClub. Evans does a good job with family dynamics and older characters, but she fails to execute the epistolary format of the book either structurally or thematically.