Your doctor refuses to believe you’re allergic to just about everything, especially milk, there’s a megalomaniac professor digging a hole outside your flat, your small stake in the amphetamine market in Brixton is being threatened by a mysterious Chinese man and the Milk Marketing Board have taken out a contract on your life.

Welcome to the bizarre, obsessive world of Alby Starvation.

A world full of shop-lifting, death-threats, paranoia and video game arcades. Alby’s frantic struggle to avoid being shot provides the hilarious and engaging back-drop for this, Martin Millar’s debut novel, now proudly back in print on I.M.P. Fiction.

What The Press Say

The Times - "Millar’s first novel receives a welcome re-issue. The story of how Alby, the Brixton speed-dealer and all-round low-life, attempts to evade characters who are set on rubbing him out evokes amphetamine-induced paranoia without ever approaching a cliché. These days the drugs have changed, but this entertaining fable, which is alternately surreal and grubbily realistic, still delights."

The Guardian - "Pop cultural references are everywhere in this frantic cultish debut which takes an Irvine Welsh-esque turn."

The List -

"Written in 1987, this welcome re-issue is a masterful work that goes straight to the heart of a spurned generation, alive and not so well, in Thatcher’s revolting (in both meanings of the word) Britain. Much of this novel is pontification brought alive by a particularly visceral strain of urban angst and, as such, pre-dates James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late. Alby Starvation is a wonderful creation, a character solidified from the blood that ran down the streets of Brixton during the riots. A work of rare genius and truly cult, it deserves a place on your book shelf next to Hubert Selby Jr’s Last Exit To Brooklyn."

What’s On London - "Martin Millar created a minor classic with his exciting, surreal and funny debut novel It is strange, quirky and entertaining to the end."

The Face - "A crazed comedy of Brixton lowlife, drugs and martial arts."