Mil Millington

Pel finds his ordinary life and his relationship with his girlfriend, Ursula, turned upside down by his boss's disappearance, leaving Pel to take over amid a chaotic web of stolen money, missing colleagues, and Chinese mafiosi.

A Novel

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued about

Instructions for Living Someone Else's Life

Engaged to be married in two months, Rob Garland finds himself paralyzed by the knowledge that because of a series of "pointless coincidences," he narrowly escaped death and by the realization that every decision one makes can have profound repercussions, until his girlfirend gives him an ultimatum to get his life together, or else. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Love and Other Near-death Experiences

Love & Other Near Death Experiences~Mil Millington

Things my girlfriend and I have argued about

Chris is 25. He has a job in advertising he despises - despite being naturally brilliant at creating shamelessly successful campaigns - an 'artistic' girlfriend and his two best mates from university, who spend a lot of time playing pool, drinking Grolsch and quoting lines from Robocop at each other. But Chris's life is about to change. The eighties are coming to an end and he must take decisive action if he is to fulfil what he suspects is his true potential. So, after pre-emptively celebrating the fact he is about to hand in his resignation, Chris goes to bed drunk in 1988 but very unexpectedly wakes up in 2006, with an unbelievable hangover, a long-suffering (and worryingly 'old'-looking) stranger for a wife, a life that hasn't turned out the way he had hoped for at all, and an unnerving amount of new body hair. For any one who has ever felt like a 25-year-old stuck in a middle-aged body this is a brilliantly funny and moving novel about love and experience, choices made and consequences lived with, and how although we may get hopelessly lost in life, the most unexpeceted people can help us find our way home.

Cash-poor writer Tom Cartwright and his long-time girlfriend, Sara, are delighted when Tom is given the lucrative task of ghost-writing the autobiography of glamourous soap actress Georgina Nye, until Tom begins to find himself drawn to his subject. By the author of Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About. Original. 30,000 first printing.

A Certain Chemistry

A fantastically funny, bittersweet story of second guesses and second chances. Rob Garland is getting married in two months. Oddly, however, this is the least of his problems. More vexing than the seating arrangements, the choice of wedding stationery - more even that the savagely obscene expense of everything - is the fact that Rob should be dead: and he knows it. Faced with an ultimatum from his girlfriend to either sort himself out, or call the wedding (and the whole relationship) off, he sets about trying to come to terms with how it is that, somehow, he's still inexplicably breathing. After pouring his heart out to the listeners on his late-night radio jazz show, he soon finds himself teamed up with others who really ought not to be alive, but who - for random, meaningless and, frankly, stupid reasons - unaccountably are. And that's when things become yet more worrying: because it turns out that their search to understand why they've each remained oddly alive might very well end up killing them all. Love, death, religious beliefs, existential angst - Love and Other Near-Death Experiences is a jack-knifing comedy about those things which should be no laughing matter.

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