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Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and greeted as the debut of an outstanding new writer. 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 both 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, and The Crossing. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he has lived in Spain, Japan, France and Ireland, and currently lives in Somerset.
Extraordinary; his writing seems to discover, or perhaps creates, additional dimensions to the world, and in the reader. -- Sarah Hall [His prose] compels, feeling urgent in a way that much contemporary fiction does not. -- Claire Messud * New York Times Book Review * One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind * Sunday Times * His startling sentences, both beautiful and distressing, can lodge themselves in your brain. * Daily Telegraph * A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts * Independent on Sunday * Miller writes like a poet, with a deceptive simplicity - his sentences and images are intense distillations, conjuring the fleeting details of existence with clarity. * Guardian * His writing is vivid, precise and constantly surprising. It reads easily, suspends life until it is read and is a source of wonder and delight -- Hilary Mantel * Sunday Times * Praise for Andrew Miller's writing: Every so often a historical novel comes along that is so natural, so far from pastiche, so modern, that it thrills and expands the mind -- <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> on <i>PURE</i> In his luminous prose, Costa Prize winner Andrew Miller conjures three very different men, but their experiences have all been traumatising. Manhunt and pilgrimage, the tale unfolds into a gripping and, ultimately, surprising exploration of the inner battleground. * Daily Mail * A beautifully observed historical thriller ... With writing that's elegiac and enthralling, this is a chase story with a wry edge and a romantic heart. * AnOther Magazine * ... excellent ... a novel of delicately shifting moods, a pastoral comedy and passionate romance story alternating with a blackly menacing thriller. It is also a book of ideas: about male violence, the impact of war and the price of freedom. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Observer * Miller recreates the past so vividly that reading the novel is never less than a fully immersive experience . . . particularly enjoyable and satisfying. -- James Walton * The Times * Outstanding historical novel which grips like a thriller from the very first page. * The Bookseller Fiction Buyers' Guide *
