Meet Scottish teenager Kalix MacRinnalch - she's a werewolf with attitude ... In LONELY WEREWOLF GIRL, Martin Millar has created a genre-bending piece of genius
There's a megalomanic professor digging a hole outside his flat. His small stake in the amphetamine market in Brixton is being threatened by a mysterious Chinese man. And the Milk Marketing Board has taken out a contract on his life. Welcome to the bizarre, obsessive world of Alby Starvation. Martin Millar's classic novel which recounts the life of the first true British anti-hero of the giro ...
The travelling community to which Melody Paradise belongs has become horribly fragmented by a series of mysterious and chaotic happenings. Her mission is to emotionally reunite them. She organises a festival to bring them together, during which an amazing story unfolds, often funny, sometimes sad, always compelling, and with a twist in the tail!
'From now on', Ruby says to her friend, the unnamed narrator, 'we're going on the Stone Age diet. It means we only eat the sort of healthy things our ancestors would have eaten'. An admirable plan, but Ruby never eats and the narrator's attention span doesn't lend itself to routine. He's too busy pining for his ex-girlfriend, who broke up with him and left him nothing but self-pity and a plant: ..