Andrew Miller: ‘DH Lawrence forced me to my feet – I was madly excited’
The novelist on how Lawrence’s The Rainbow made him want to write, the strange genius of Penelope Fitzgerald and finding comfort in Tintin
November 2025
Andrew Miller is bookies’ favourite to win 2025 Booker prize
The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
October 2025
What we're reading
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September
Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
September 2025
The Guardian view on the 2025 Booker prize: bringing posh bingo to the BookTok generation
‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist
As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them
Chris Power
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Haruki Murakami, Richard Powers and more
July 2025
Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw
This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions
Justine Jordan
November 2024
Book of the day
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness
In brief: Who Owns Football?; The Caretaker; The Land in Winter
March 2022
The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller review – Belfast, booze and a lifetime of bad nights
The award-winning historical novelist does justice to a sombre examination of a soldier’s shame and guilt in the decades since his army service in Northern Ireland
June 2021
Novelists issue plea to save English degrees as demand slumps
Authors blame government ‘prejudice’ against humanities, as loss of applicants hits university courses
August 2018
Book of the day
Now We Shall be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller – a sparkling return to history
Both a ripping yarn and a meditation on absence, this novel displays all the author’s customary skill
Andrew Miller: ‘Writing is how you transform yourself, the world. It’s your politics’
The books interview: his debut won a major prize, but his career path hasn’t always been smooth. He talks writer’s block, meditation and 18th-century underwear
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller – review
The English writer brings the full range of his virtuosity to bear in a Napoleonic-era tale that veers from comedy and romance to outright menace
June 2016
Paperback writer
Andrew Miller: 'I was trying to leap out of my habitual mind'
After six novels, the author explains, fiction had begun to seem like a rather hollow formula. For his seventh, The Crossing, he wanted to find something new
November 2015
The Crossing by Andrew Miller review – mesmeric but infuriating
Andrew Miller’s latest novel is easy on the ear but his heroine is inscrutable to an infuriating degree
August 2015
Book of the day
The Crossing by Andrew Miller review – a remarkable novel about loneliness and self-possession
The Guardian Books podcast
New fiction with Hanya Yanagihara and Andrew Miller - books podcast
