Book of the Month: Land by Maggie O'Farrell

We are delighted to offer you the chance to win one of five copies of Land by the highly-acclaimed Maggie O'Farrell, in hardback, thanks to Tinder Press.

To be in with a chance of winning this spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival from the Women’s Prize for Fiction winning author of Hamnet, answer the question at the bottom of this page by 11.59pm on 31 July 2026.

All entrants must reside in the UK and full terms and conditions apply.

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About Land by Maggie O'Farrell

Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land, the new novel from the author of Hamnet, is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a family navigating a legacy of upheaval and loss with love and hope.

On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?