Pure
British novelist, born 1960. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2011 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2025.
Pure is a 2011 novel by Andrew Miller. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2011.
On 2 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Andrew Miller
- First published
- 2011
- Length
- 352 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2011
- Walter Scott Prize shortlist, 2012
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Religion and faith, Political
Is Pure worth reading?
2 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and the Walter Scott Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2011) | Winner | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2012) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Pure
The edition we link to is the Sceptre paperback (2012), 352 pages.
- Publisher
- Sceptre (paperback, 2012)
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781444724288
How critics, prizes and readers rate Pure
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Pure
If you liked Pure, try The Land in Winter or Oxygen.
