Best known for his clever tricks and mind-blowing live shows, illusionist Derren Brown is taking his Miracle show to Glasgow for a week.

No doubt he will have his trademark red Frisbee in hand to pick out audience members to participate.

Some of his most famous tricks have seen him correctly predict winning lottery numbers and take part in a live Russian roulette but he promises his live shows are the best part.

The illusionist says: "Like all my shows I keep it very secret and I swear the audience to secrecy every night so I try to keep the surprises but it's a show essentially about happiness and about the stories that we tell ourselves.

"It's got the boldest and maddest second half of any of the shows ever that I've done over the last 15 years so it was a strange one to do.

"I had no idea if it was going to work at all but actually it seems to work very well so I'm quite proud of this one."

Derren has been touring his latest show for seven months and Glasgow will be one of his final stops but he is saving the best for last.

He says: "There is a general rule that I think the further north that you go, the sort of warmer the audiences are. So Glasgow and Edinburgh have always been phenomenal audiences.

Miracle is his seventh live show since 2003, and will be his last the UK for a while as he has plans to take his tricks and wit to Broadway in New York.

Derren was studying German and Law at Bristol University when he went to see a hypnotist show.

He was awestruck.

From there, he spent his university years studying the art of hypnosis and started a career doing close-up magic and performing live is where his heart remains.

"I much prefer doing live shows," he says.

"The TV is interesting in that you do get to go to some amazing places and get to extraordinary things. I did a show about called 'apocalypse' where I am kind of ending the world for somebody and that was huge and an elaborate, ambitious, eight-month project so that was amazing doing stuff like that.

"A stage show, every aspect of it is fun. There are only three of us involved and there are never any budgetary issues and the rehearsing is fun. It's just a delight, a different city every week.

Audience members can expect to get involved in the tricks and will be kept on the edge of their seats as Derren says it is 99% random who is chosen for his tricks and they are chosen by the throw of a red Frisbee.

He says: "Purely because it's more fun if you don't know what happens and particularly with this show actually more than the other shows."

"It's not just about spoilers," he explains.

"I think if people knew what happened in the second half of the show, it would very much change the mindset of why they would come and see it and it would attract a whole new type of audience that I wouldn't want."

Being accepted into the extremely exclusive and secretive world of magic is an achievement in itself so it pays off to maintain good relations with the magic circle, despite some of his controversial TV appearances.

"I had a good reputation in the magic world before appearing on TV and that's always helpful because I had some respect there first," says Derren.

"I had a decade of writing a couple of books for magicians and being out in that world anyway so generally they have always seemed to like it and I've tried to define my own sort of area within so it doesn't always neatly fit into classic magician's category and they seem to have gone with it and generally seem supportive and very nice."

Aside from his magic, Derren also has an eccentric hobby to match his personality.

"I started collecting taxidermy when I was a student and it has grown ever since," he says.

"It's all ethically sourced which is important so no one is going out shooting things. It tends to be road kill or things that have just naturally died or animals that die in zoos and so on but I've got an obsessive collector's team so now I have a whole house full of it."

"It's sort of a mixture, I started off as a hypnotist and then I started off doing magic so I used to say on one of the TV shows that it's a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship," he explains.

"I think that seems accurate so it's not genuine kind of psychic ability or really mind reading, those things aren't possible, it's all very rational."

From convincing someone to crash land a plane to making them believe the world had ended and they were living through a zombie apocalypse, it is fair to say he has put some people through a lot.

"Occasionally I do hear from the Russian Roulette guys," he says. "I've generally kept in touch with some of the guys that have been through some of the darkest shows that were designed to kind of change their lives for the better.

"In particular, I did a programme called Hero at 30,000 Feet, which involved a guy eventually having to land a plane when the pilot's had taken ill," says Derren.

"And Apocalypse, which was a whole thing around ending the world for somebody and then waking up in a post-apocalyptic zombie infested world so they both went through a lot so it would be very hard to not stay friends with someone who you put through that so I have kept in touch mainly with those two."

"I've got a ride about to open at Thorpe Park which is a ghost train, which like many trains has been annoyingly delayed but I think it's going to be happening soon," says Derren.

"I've got a book coming out on happiness which I have been writing for the past three years on and off while I've been on tour so that's going to be out probably around the end of September so I will be working on that."

Derren Brown is taking to the stage at the King's Theatre, Glasgow, until July 9.