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
July 2013
Top 10s
The top 10 French Revolution novels
Ahead of this year's Bastille Day, novelist Jonathan Grimwood chooses fiction's best treatments of the mother of modern revolts
January 2012
Andrew Miller: my morbid obsession
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Andrew Miller wins Costa book of the year
Books blog
Andrew Miller's Pure: the best kind of historical novel
Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure
My hero
My hero: Evariste Galois by Andrew Miller
Moira Young's Blood Red Road leads Costa book winners
November 2011
Andrew Miller: Pure enjoyment
Despite its morbid subject matter, Andrew Miller's latest novel, the Costa-shortlisted Pure, is full of ghoulish fun. He tells Lindesay Irvine how he was lured back to historical fiction
October 2011
Books season
How to write fiction: Andrew Miller on creating characters
Strong characters are crucial to fiction. You can borrow traits from real life, but the best characters are born of a deeper human understanding, writes Andrew Miller
July 2011
Pure by Andrew Miller – review
Andrew Miller drops us right into the contagion and contamination of Paris in the dying days of the ancien regime, writes Leo Robson
June 2011
Top 10s
Andrew Miller's top 10 historical novels
From Rosemary Sutcliff to Hilary Mantel, the novelist chooses his favourite books drawing on history's 'rattle-bag of wonderful stories'
