Robert "Mil" Millington is a British author of humorous books.

History

Millington first came to public prominence as a writer when he created a web-site entitled "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About", describing arguments and misunderstandings between Millington and his German girlfriend Margret, mother of his two sons. The site was initially hosted on

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's web servers, but Millington was required to move it to privately owned servers when concerns arose about the site's content which included a "sex survey" about women with hairy armpits. Due to the site's popularity, Millington was offered a publishing deal, and wrote a novel with the same title as his web-site, but with new content, published in 2002. He has published four subsequent novels with humorous content: and his works have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Finnish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Serbo-Croat.

Bibliography

Webpage

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Novels

Source: * ''

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About ''Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About'' is a novel by English writer Mil Millington. The work began as a website that Millington made about his arguments with his German girlfriend, Margret. Millington also adapted this theme to a co ...

'' (2002) * '' A Certain Chemistry'' (2003) * '' Love And Other Near Death Experiences'' (2006) * '' Beginners Guide to Life'' (2006) * '' Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life'' (2007)

Other works

Millington is also the co-creator of the site www.TheWeekly.co.uk, and has contributed to several newspapers, notably ''

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'' and the ''

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''. His work for the Guardian included a column called "Anxious About Everything" ''

'' newspaper named Millington as one of the five best debut novelists in 2002.In the beginning... The Guardian, Saturday 23 March 2002
/ref> In 2009 he worked with Jonathan Nash on scripts for the BBC radio series ''

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.'' (2009)

References

External links

* http://www.milmillington.com (Website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Millington, Mil British humorists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton The Guardian journalists Scriptwriters of Sexton Blake