{"id":10,"date":"2015-01-12T21:52:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T21:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipmillerbooks.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:13:10","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.philipmillerbooks.com\/?page_id=10","title":{"rendered":"FICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip is currently writing a new novel. \u00a0THE DIARY OF LIES<\/strong> was published in August 2025 by Birlinn in the UK and Soho Crime in the US.<\/p>\n

“Excellent.”<\/p>\n

\u2014New York Times<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMiller is chilling and doom-laden in his furiously poetic depiction of a once great civilization going off the rails. Addressing this through the framework of crime fiction\u2014laced with surreal doses of Old English and Celtic folklore\u2014produces a fascinating hybrid that is Miller\u2019s alone.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Air Mail<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

THE HOLLOW TREE<\/strong>\u00a0(2024) (Birlinn\/Soho Crime)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A <\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/em> Best Mystery Book of 2024<\/em>
\nLoveReading E-Book of the Month<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMiller is a melancholy master of atmosphere as well as a poet who knows how to cast a spell.\u201d
\n\u2014Air Mail<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

THE GOLDENACRE (2022)<\/strong> (Birlinn\/Soho Crime)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Goldenacre<\/i>\u00a0features a dense cast of vivid characters, not least Tallis, a tortured pilgrim worthy of a Graham Greene tale. The book\u2014which explores through prose the interplay between light and darkness in the physical and moral worlds\u2014is an ambitious and wonderfully realized work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013TOM NOLAN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/em><\/h5>\n

ALL THE GALAXIES (2017) (Freight\/Allen and Unwin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Philip Miller takes the reader\u2019s imagination, re-tunes it, and makes it run faster and farther than you ever thought it could. He re-defines God, while keeping the eternal struggle as blood, sweat and tears as ever\u2026.don\u2019t look for answers, don\u2019t expect conclusions. But do expect to feel a little bereft and to want much more of the same when you reach the end of this all consuming novel.\u2019<\/p>\n

Book of the Month \u2013 The Scot Magazine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018A riveting tale set in an entirely plausible future Glasgow. Elegant and enthralling. A wonderful read\u2019<\/p>\n

Denise Mina<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE BLUE HORSE (2015) (Freight)<\/b><\/p>\n

‘The Blue Horse itself stands for something altogether more subtle, a symbol of both the fleetingness of life and its precise opposite, the ability of great art to hold back time….His portrait of George Newhouse, the art historian half-blinded by grief and drink, is well done, and that strange place, the art world, is brought convincingly to life. An impressive debut.’\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Robinson, Scotland on Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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