Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller‘s first novel, Ingenious Pain won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize. It has been followed by Casanova; Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001; The Optimists; One Morning Like A Bird; Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011; The Crossin;, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, which was the winner of the Highland Book Prize, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, a Waterstones Book of the Month, and a Book of the Year pick in the New Statesman, Guardian and Spectator’ and The Slowworm’s Song.

Andrew’s novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset. His latest novel The Land in Winter was published by Sceptre in October 2024. In 2025 it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.