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Martin Millar

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Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom

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Martin Millar is a critically acclaimed Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London. He also writes the Thraxas series of fantasy novels under the pseudonym Martin Scott.

The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cultures, and the impact this has on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism, and the feeling that the boundary between real life and the supernatural is not very thick. Most of them are set in Brixton, Millar's one-time place of residence. Many are at least semi-autobiographical, and Love and Peace with Melody Paradise and Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me both feature Millar himself as a character.

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	The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.51 avg rating — 5,602 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Werewolf Girl (Kalix MacRinnalch, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 3,613 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Curse of the Wolf Girl (Kalix MacRinnalch, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation 3.88 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 1987 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf (Kalix MacRinnalch, #3) 4.23 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lux the poet 3.80 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Goddess of Buttercups & Daisies 3.72 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruby and the Stoneage Diet 3.49 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love & Peace with Melody Paradise 3.91 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Supercute Futures 3.52 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thraxas Audio Books

Audible have bought the first four Thraxas books to make audio books. The first one is available now. I’m very pleased about this. These are the first audio versions of any of my books. It’s not me reading them, which is good as I’d have been terrible at it. I like the reader they’ve chosen. I like their imagining of Thraxas and Makri too. This book, Thraxas, won the World Fantasy Award. The secon

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“The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.”
― Martin Millar, Lonely Werewolf Girl

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“I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.”
― Martin Millar, Ruby and the Stoneage Diet

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“Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.”
― Martin Millar, The Good Fairies of New York

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