PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and travelling abroad. He has been, at various times, a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the world's worst aluminium salesman. In 1998 he gave up his day job and booked a passage on a banana boat bound for South America in order to write Aberystwyth Mon Amour. He spent the next seven years living in Bangkok, where he wrote three more novels in the series, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth and Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth. In 2007 he moved back to the UK and now lives in Oxford, where he wrote From Aberystwyth with Love, The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still, and, most recently, The Case of the Hail Mary Celeste. malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist
Complex absurdity of a very special sort. Anyone who loves steam trains, detective thrillers and PG Wodehouse will feel distinctly at home * <b>Jasper Fforde</b> * An utter delight – this cocktail of the surreal and the terrifyingly real is a rare entertainment * <b>Michael Williams, author of <i>On the Slow Train</i></b> * Gripping * <b><i>Britain</b></i> * Effortless and hilarious … Pryce is in a league of his own * <i>Time Out</i> * Malcolm Pryce is the king of welsh noir … Edgar Allen Poe meets Phoenix Nights in a flurry of blood-stained absurdity * <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> * A master of dry delivery, he has an impressive ability to transpose the ordinary with the extraordinary, sweeping you away into a funfair mirror world of grotesque characters and absurd situations which keep you glued to the page at every turn * <i>Big Issue</i> *
