Martin Millar, Author . Soft Skull $15.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-9796636-6-6
Complex family and social conflicts clutter the pages of this scattershot romp from World Fantasy Award–winner Millar (The Good Fairies of New York
). Kalix MacRinnalch, a poorly socialized, laudanum-addicted teenage werewolf, has violently...
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Martin Millar, Author . Soft Skull $13.95 (222p) ISBN 978-1-59376-200-1
Millar (Lonely Werewolf Girl
; The Good Fairies of New York
) is laconic as ever in this loving tribute to disaffection and the hopefulness of youth. It's 1972, and for 15-year-old Martin Millar, who narrates, it's a time of hazy...
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Martin Millar, Author . Soft Skull $13.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59376-227-8
A neurotic British hypochondriac is at the center of Millar’s frenetic, eccentric novel, first published in the U.K. in 1987. “[R]agged” paranoid Alby Starvation barely makes ends meet in his career dealing speed in Brixton, and he&
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Martin Millar, Author . Counterpoint/Soft Skull $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59376-231-5
British novelist Millar offers up another nutty slice of interconnected lives in this tale of a lovelorn poet's quest for love. As London's Brixton riot rages, Lux, a 17-year-old vagabond poet waiting for fame to find him, dodges fire...
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Martin Millar, Author . Counterpoint/Soft Skull $13.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-59376-233-9
The grubby demimonde of London's Brixton district serves as the backdrop for this low-rent rock-and-roll tale. Millar's treatment of Elfish, a self-absorbed, indifferently promiscuous, and hygienically challenged young woman engaged in a...
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Martin Millar, Underland (PGW, dist.), $15.95 paper (384p) ISBN 9780980226058
Kalix the emo berserker werewolf makes a moody return in Millar's witty, chaotic sequel to 2008's Lonely Werewolf Girl. Offered an allowance by her mother if she does well at remedial college, Kalix is soon distracted by the murder of her former...
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Martin Millar, Author Soft Skull Press $13.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-59376-232-2
In this charming but aimless tale, the everyday harshness of drugs, heartbreak, and poverty in London's gritty south side mingles casually with a series of hallucinatory vignettes that may or may not be the result of unknowingly-ingested LSD....
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Martin Millar. Counterpoint/Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (640p) ISBN 978-1-59376-537-8
Kalix MacRinnalch, the titular fretful lycanthrope, is 18 years old, directionless, unhappy, and borderline bulimic. Empress Kabachetka of Hainusta wants to kill Kalix and her family, but this plot never goes anywhere exciting. Much of the book is...
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Martin Millar. Counterpoint/Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59376-605-4
Millar’s lively comic novel centers on the frantic efforts of Greek playwright Aristophanes to finally earn the respect that eluded him throughout his career. The year is 421 B.C.E., and Aristophanes hopes to wow his rowdy audience and the critics...
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Martin Millar, Author, Neil Gaiman, Introduction by . Soft Skull $13.95 (242p) ISBN 978-1-933368-36-8
British author Millar offers fiercely funny (and often inebriated) Scottish fairies, a poignant love story as well as insights into the gravity of Crohn's disease, cultural conflicts and the plight of the homeless in this fey urban fantasy. Due...
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