Andy Miller

Andy Christopher Miller was born in the Lost Children’s Hut on Weymouth Beach, England, in 1946. (The local maternity hospital was full as a result of the post-War ‘baby bulge’, necessitating this temporary overspill arrangement). He can recite almost verbatim the entire content of the adjacent Punch and Judy show.

Andy has been writing since his school days, publishing poetry in his school, then college, and finally national-level magazines culminating in his winning, in 2011, the international Yeovil Literary Prize for Poetry.

He began writing a daily diary in 1967 and this now exceeds ‘War and Peace’ by more than three and a half times. In length if not in literary quality!

As a life long enthusiast for rock climbing, mountaineering, wildernesses and coasts, Andy has published articles in a range of related magazines and journals. He has a long track record of ten books, chapters and journal articles in his professional capacity as a practicing and academic psychologist and an Honorary Professor at the Universities of both Nottingham and Warwick.

His book, The Naples of England (2015), is a memoir of family, truth and secrets and what it was like to grow up in seaside Britain in the years following the Second World War. The Ragged Weave of Yesterday (2017) examines the psychology and practice of personal diary writing. Never: A Word (2021) is a novel looking at the impact of family secrets across three generations of women and Way To The West (2023), combines original watercolours of the west of Cornwall by Vally Miller with matching poetry from Andy. His latest book, A Year on the Ethels: A Life in the Hills (2025) is a climbing and walking memoir that covers outdoor adventures over a span of more than sixty years.