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⭐ Out now: Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐
Pure: an enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award
'Irresistibly compelling' Sunday Telegraph
'Dazzling' Guardian
'A work of beauty' The Times
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby.
Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
Praise for Andrew Miller
'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel
'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times
'Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity' Sarah Hall
'A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative' The Times
'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator
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About the Author
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. 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 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 in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm's Song and The Land in Winter, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
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*WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*
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