Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller is a British novelist born in Bristol in 1960. He studied at the University of East Anglia's creative writing programme. His novels include Ingenious Pain (1997, winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Casanova (1998), Oxygen (2001), The Optimists (2005), One Morning Like a Bird (2008), Pure (2011, winner of the Costa Novel Award), The Crossing (2015), Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018), and The Land in Winter (2024). The Land in Winter (2024, Sceptre) is set during the English Civil War in the aftermath of the Battle of Langport (1645) and follows a young Royalist soldier sheltering on a Somerset farmstead during one winter, caught between allegiances and identities. Written in precise and luminous prose, it won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2025. Miller is one of Britain's most consistently distinguished literary novelists, known for his meticulous historical imagination and his ability to inhabit the inner lives of characters in extremis.