Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist. Life and career Miller was born in Bristol. He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, and after gaining a first-class degree in English at Middlesex Polytechnic, completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1991. In 1995 he wrote a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. For his first book Ingenious Pain he received three awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award; and the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy. The book has been translated into 36 languages. Miller currently lives in Witham Friary in Somerset with his daughter Frieda. Bibliography Ingenious Pain (1997, Sceptre) Casanova (1998, Sceptre) Oxygen (2001, Sceptre) The Optimists (2005, Sceptre) One Morning Like a Bird (2008, Sceptre) Pure (2011, Sceptre) The Crossing (2015, Sceptre) Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018, Sceptre) The Slowworm's Song (2022, Sceptre) Awards 1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fiction Award, Ingenious Pain 1997 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), Best Foreign Fiction, Ingenious Pain 1999 International Dublin Literary Award, Winner, Ingenious Pain 2001 Booker Prize, Shortlist, Oxygen 2001 Whitbread Novel Award, Shortlist, Oxygen 2011 Costa Book Awards, Best Novel, Pure 2011 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book of the Year, Pure 2019 Walter Scott Prize shortlist, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free References External links 1960 births Living people People educated at Dauntsey's School Alumni of Middlesex University Alumni of the University of East Anglia Alumni of Lancaster University 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists Costa Book Award winners James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature British male novelists 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers People from Mendip District