Miles had never written anything longer than a shopping list when he wrote the black comedy "Mum's Ashes". After it won the Sony/Guardian short screenplay competition judged by Spike Jonz he wrote some more scripts and sent them to the BBC Writers' Room. 27 episodes of BBC 1's Doctors ensued.

This summer he reached the last 16 of the Writers' Academy. He is currently working on a psychological thriller screenplay "Slit" and a drama series "River and Brooke".

Miles trained as a sculptor and has exhibited widely including New York and London. There is a 3 ton bronze of his on permanent display at Gun Wharf, Portsmouth. The art informs the writing and the writing informs the art.

In writing and sculpture, Miles's subject is the human figure: how it survives and is shaped by its environment. Each work, whether it is written in words or carved in stone is an attempt to express in a contemporary voice and style what it's like to be human today.