Philip Miller is the author of two novels, The Blue Horse and All the Galaxies, both published by Freight Books. His next novel, The Goldenacre, will be published by Polygon in 2022.
He lives in Edinburgh and was an award-winning journalist for 20 years, before becoming a civil servant.
His poems have been published online and in print and he received a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2019.
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The Goldenacre
'An outstanding mystery thriller… Noir fans won’t want to miss it' - Publishers Weeky (Starred)
'A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth' - Denise Mina, author of the Garnethill trilogy and The Long Drop
‘A gritty, propulsive and moving thriller that makes important points about art, wealth and class.’ Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby Queen
The Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery.
Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the painting's complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh.
Both investigators soon become engulfed in the machinations of money, crime and identity in a literary thriller set amid the seen and unseen forces at work in modern Scotland.