Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller (born 1974 in London) is a British journalist and author, best known for his debut novel, Snowdrops, published under the name A.D. Miller. He studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton and worked in television before joining The Economist magazine as a reporter in 2000. Fiction Snowdrops, an "amorality tale" set in Moscow, was published in 2011. The story is narrated by Nick Platt, a British lawyer working in Russia in the mid-noughties; Platt becomes involved with a woman he meets on the metro and is caught up in a pair of ruthless scams. It was the first novel to be shortlisted for both the Booker Prize for fiction and the CWA Gold Dagger. The novel was also nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Galaxy National Book Awards. Snowdrops received generally favourable reviews. A review in the Independent called it "an electrifying tour of the dark side of Moscow, and of human nature". The Financial Times described it as a "superlative portrait of a country in which everything has its price". The novel was translated into 25 languages. It was selected as a 'book of the year' for 2011 in the Financial Times, the Observer and the Spectator, among other publications. The Faithful Couple, Miller's second novel, was published in 2015. A review in the Financial Times called it "gripping, affecting and memorable". The Times said it was "studded with little zingers or evocative phrases that encapsulate something bigger". Miller's third novel, Independence Square, set during the Orange Revolution in Kyiv, was published in 2020. In the Spectator, David Patrikarakos said it was "a book about truth and lies, about dirty money and the manipulation of politics". In the Guardian, Marcel Theroux said "Independence Square made me think of a 21st-century Graham Greene novel, an absorbing thriller informed by emotional intelligence and a deep understanding of geopolitics". In the Washington Post, Ron Charles described it as "a double helix of espionage and regret".