Andrew Miller’s first novel, INGENIOUS PAIN, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. 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 in 2011; THE CROSSING; NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE; THE SLOWWORM'S SONG; and THE LAND IN WINTER, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2025. Andrew Miller’s novels have been published in translation in 20 countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.

Books by Andrew Miller

The Land in Winter

by Andrew Miller - Fiction, Historical Fiction

December 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two neighboring couples begin the day. Local doctor Eric Parry commences his rounds in the village, while his pregnant wife, Irene, wanders the rooms of their old house, mulling over the space that has grown between the two of them. On the farm nearby lives witty but troubled Rita Simmons, who is also expecting. She spends her days trying on the idea of being a farmer’s wife, but her head still swims with images of a raucous past that her husband, Bill, prefers to forget. When Rita and Irene meet across the bare field between their houses, a clock starts. When the ordinary cold of December gives way --- ushering in violent blizzards of the harshest winter in living memory --- so do the secret resentments harbored in all four lives.

The Optimists

by Andrew Miller