An Evening with Booker Prize Shortlisted Andrew Miller

This year's Booker Prize-shortlisted Andrew Miller visits Bath for a very special evening – do come along to celebrate The Land in Winter with us.

'Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect... Superb'
SAMANTHA HARVEY

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY.

Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that's already faltering.

But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.

Where do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?

Andrew Miller's prize-winning debut novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. This book has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, shortlisted for prizes such as the Booker Prize, and The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award. Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries.

Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.