Philip Miller

I’ve taken up cricket again this summer after many decades away. While the sweetness of hitting a shot just right is just so sweet (so good you can’t even feel it) the feeling of desolation on being bowled, or the umpires finger going up, is entire. A hard, addictive, beautiful game isn’t it.

Our next week in the UK….

A card with a blue background. On the left is the cover of a book, blue brushtrokes with a frosty scene of a grand house at the top underneath the author's name: Philip Miller. The title reads: THE DIARY OF LIES, with the tagline 'Not every conspiracy is a theory...' On the right is text that reads: Praise for The Diary of Lies. “Philip Miller does it again. Beautifully written, complex, and gripping from start to finish, The Diary of Lies is a dark and brutal tale that holds a mirror up to our troubled times.” E. S. Thomson, award-winning author of Beloved Poison “(A) Sophisticated narrative…with striking prose and loveable characters. Fans of Mick Herron will adore this.” Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “The Diary of Lies is deeply scary and all too believable.” Book Page, Starred Review “Miller’s greatest gift is to get you to care about his characters long before you’ve figured out what they’re looking for.” Kirkus Reviews

The Diary of Lies is published next month. ‘Find Grendel’, Shona Sandison is told…

The harbour at Newhaven in Edinburgh at sunset with shreds of clouds aglow in the dying sunlight and the lighthouse a near silhouette.

Newhaven.

NWS 43: Introduction Kirstin Innes and Chris Powici introduce New Writing Scotland 43. New Writing Scotland has a wide-open editorial policy, and we read each submission anonymously. It can create a lot of reading for our...

“In poems, short stories, novel extracts, scripts and memoir, the writers in these pages have found their own distinctive ways of giving voice to what matters to them, and thereby spill some of the familiar, surprising, awkward, thrilling truths that make up who we are.”
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Looking forward to launching this third Shona Sandison book @goldenharebooks.bsky.social…come along. @birlinn.bsky.social

Join us in the bookshop on Weds 13th Aug to celebrate the launch of the latest Philip Miller thriller, The Diary of Lies. Tickets available via link in our bio, or come and see us at the bookshop! We're here every day, 10am to 6pm. @philipmiller.bsky.social @birlinn

The Diary of Lies by Philip Miller Miller’s outstanding third case for reporter Shona Sandison (after The Hollow Tree) effortlessly braids together three interconn...

Thank you to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this review…

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This album gets finer the more you listen. Beautiful record.

RBmedia | The Diary of Lies "International Edition" Listen to the audiobook The Diary of Lies "International Edition", written by Philip Miller, narrated by Robin Laing.

The excellent @raingoblin.bsky.social once again reads the audiobook version of my latest book rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

BookPage coverage of 'The Diary of Lies' Full list of articles featuring The Diary of Lies in BookPage.

‘The Diary of Lies is deeply scary and all too believable’ www.bookpage.com/books/the-di...

Grateful to have a poem included in this fine collection. Thanks to @asls.org.uk. Out next month.

Picture of page from Publishers Weekly showing review of The Diary of Lies by Philip Miller which it describes as an ‘intoxicating mystery’.

‘An intoxicating mystery’. Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this review of The Diary of Lies. @sohopress.bsky.social @birlinn.bsky.social

New Writing Scotland 43 Edited by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher Published in: Paperback, 184 pages By: Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, August 2025 Price: £9.95 ISBN: 9781906841669 Cover image…

A CHAOS OF LIGHT
New Writing Scotland 43
Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher

“writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix”

Aug 2025 – available for preorder!
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A card with a blue background. On the left is the cover of a book, blue brushtrokes with a frosty scene of a grand house at the top underneath the author's name: Philip Miller. The title reads: THE DIARY OF LIES, with the tagline 'Not every conspiracy is a theory...' On the right is text that reads: Praise for The Diary of Lies. “Philip Miller does it again. Beautifully written, complex, and gripping from start to finish, The Diary of Lies is a dark and brutal tale that holds a mirror up to our troubled times.” E. S. Thomson, award-winning author of Beloved Poison “(A) Sophisticated narrative…with striking prose and loveable characters. Fans of Mick Herron will adore this.” Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “The Diary of Lies is deeply scary and all too believable.” Book Page, Starred Review “Miller’s greatest gift is to get you to care about his characters long before you’ve figured out what they’re looking for.” Kirkus Reviews

The Diary of Lies is published next month. ‘Find Grendel’, Shona Sandison is told…

A poem, Withershins.

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Thanks to @teddyjamieson.bsky.social for including The Diary of Lies amongst some significant company in this preview of summer reads…https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/25244160.death-never-takes-holiday-10-best-crime-books-summer/

The first six Sabbath albums absolutely rule, of course. The List once asked me to review their entire remastered back catalogue. Best commission ever…

THE DIARY OF LIES | Kirkus Reviews Fresh off her award for Scoop of the Year for unmasking the undercover dealmaking behind Brexit, freelance Edinburgh journalist Shona Sandison lands an even bigger, and more dangerous, scoop.

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The Diary of Lies Event with Philip Miller - Wednesday 13th August 202 Join us in the bookshop to hear Philip Miller in conversation with Ann Landmann about The Diary of Lies, the third in his critically-acclaimed Shona Sandison mystery series. 6.30pm on Wednesday 13th A...

The Diary of Lies is launched in August…come along to @goldenharebooks.bsky.social

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It’s a masterpiece and Burial might be a genius.

Agree! Love that first album and Fade Grey to Fade Blue is still one of my favourite songs…

Looking forward to this online event with Camilla Trinchieri next week…logon and join in…https://www.crowdcast.io/c/international-crime-showcase

A new book by Sarah Hall is some good news, amid all the rest of it.

Great to be part of @bloodyscotland.bsky.social this year with @dougskelton.bsky.social and Charlotte Philby. bloodyscotland.com/event/deadli...

Poem about fathers and so sons

I’ve written several poems about, or linked, to my father in some way or other Here is one.

Thrilled The Hollow Tree is shortlisted for a #shamusaward @sohopress.bsky.social @birlinn.bsky.social

Bearded middle aged writer Phil Miller on cover of Publishers Weekly with new novel The Diary of Lies

Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for previewing and reviewing The Diary of Lies this week…

A fantastic launch for the 2025 programme which has now been let loose on the world! Tickets at bloodyscotland.com/whats-on

The Diary of Lies by Philip Miller Miller’s outstanding third case for reporter Shona Sandison (after The Hollow Tree) effortlessly braids together three interconn...

Philip Miller’s third case for reporter Sandison effortlessly braids together three interconnected story lines. The strands of his sophisticated narrative come together slowly, and he enriches the proceedings with striking prose and lovable characters.