Andrew Miller: 26th March 2026

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Andrew Miller visits Sherborne Literary Society on 26th Match. Andrew has published ten novels. He has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year, the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Even more impressively, his 2025 The Land in Winter was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has been described by The Telegraph as 'One of the best writers at work today' and the book 'Has an uncanny beauty and depth' (The Guardian):

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? intro paragraph...