What's on my bedside table: Andrew Miller

English novelist Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. He spent his early childhood in Somerset until his parents separated and Andrew moved to Bath with his mother. After leaving school, Andrew worked with Social Services for three years before starting his Creative Writing studies at the University of East Anglia. His educational path was sealed when he was awarded a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995.

Andrew's literary career has been award-laden from the start. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and it went on to collect the James Tait Black Memorial Prize among others. It was followed by Casanova in 1998 which has been adapted to film. Oxygen, published in 2001, was shortlisted for both The Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. His latest novel, One Morning Like a Bird, is set to be published in 2009. We went to see what books he keeps by his bedside table:

JG Farrell: Troubles
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer. So hypnotic are the faded charms of the Majestic, the Major is almost unaware of the gathering storm. But this is Ireland in 1919 - and the struggle for independence is about to explode with brutal force.

Gitta Sereny: Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
A psychological portrait of Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production. Speer oversaw operations in the munitions factories in which tens of thousands of slave labourers died. During the Nuremberg trials, Speer pleaded ignorance to the Holocaust and evaded capital punishment. In this work, the author investigates Speer's troubled childhood and speculates that a lack of love drove him to become a Nazi. Furthermore, she asserts that before Speer died in 1981, he had accepted responsibility for his participation in the Final Solution.

Penelope Fitzgerald: The Beginning of Spring
Nellie Reed disappears from her home at 22 Lipka Street, and her husband Frank - suspecting she has returned to England - must raise their three young children with the help of beautiful Lisa Ivanovna.

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