The Slowworm’s Song is the new novel by UEA alumnus Andrew Miller and is published by Sceptre this week. Andrew graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1990, and published his first novel Ingenious Pain in 1997. This went on to win the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Italy’s Grinzane Cavour Prize. He has since written seven novels: Casanova (1998), Oxygen (2001), which was shortlisted for the Whitebread Novel of the Year Award and the Booker Prize, The Optimists (2005), One Morning Like A Bird (2008), Pure (2011), which was the winner of 2012 Costa Book Award, The Crossing (2015), and Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, which was longlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.