Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. He has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France, and currently lives in Somerset. His first novel, INGENIOUS PAIN, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour prize in Italy. His second novel, CASANOVA, was published in 1998, followed by OXYGEN, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Booker Prize in 2001, and THE OPTIMISTS, published in 2005.
Awards: Walter Scott (2025), Costa (2011), Dublin (1999), James Tait Black (1997) see all
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, General Fiction
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Novels
Ingenious Pain (1997)
Casanova (1998)
Oxygen (2001)
The Optimists (2005)
One Morning Like a Bird (2008)
Pure (2011)
The Crossing (2015)
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018)
The Slowworm's Song (2022)
The Land in Winter (2024)
Casanova (1998)
Oxygen (2001)
The Optimists (2005)
One Morning Like a Bird (2008)
Pure (2011)
The Crossing (2015)
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018)
The Slowworm's Song (2022)
The Land in Winter (2024)
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Andrew Miller recommends

Helm (2025)
Sarah Hall
"Helm is a wonder. I'm almost drunk on so many voices and so much invention. There's something fearless in the way Sarah Hall writes. It's a novel rooted in a sense of place, but extraordinarily expansive in its time travelling. A big, celebratory book, in places delightfully playful, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller. A writer at full stretch and at the top of her craft."

The White Flower (2024)
Charlotte Beeston
"Charlotte Beeston's gorgeous debut novel is a wonderfully intelligent and sensitively handled portrait of grief. Literary in the best sense (language matters) the novel is full of incidental pleasures and deserves to be widely read."

A Net for Small Fishes (2021)
Lucy Jago
"A fabulous book. Frankie and Anne's world is not just brilliantly evoked but brilliantly sustained. Lucy Jago doesn't make a single false step. And it's exciting!"
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