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Malcolm Pryce

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born

January 01, 1960 in Shrewsbury, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.malcolmpryce.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Humor

influences

Raymond Chandler

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Malcolm Pryce is a British author, mostly known for his noir detective novels.

Born in Shrewsbury, England, Pryce moved at the age of nine to Aberystwyth, where he later attended Penglais Comprehensive School before leaving to do some travelling. After working in a variety of jobs. including BMW assembly-line worker in Germany, hotel washer-up, "the world's worst aluminium salesman", and deck hand on a yacht in Polynesia, Pryce became an advertising copywriter in London and Singapore. He is currently resident in Oxford.

Pryce writes in the style of Raymond Chandler, but his novels are incongruously set on the rainswept streets of an alternate universe version of the Welsh seaside resort and university town of Aberystwyth. The hero of the nove...more

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Books by Malcolm Pryce

Average rating: 3.75 · 1,307 ratings · 157 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Aberystwyth Mon Amour (Aberystwyth Noir, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Last Tango in Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth 3.79 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #4) 3.82 avg rating — 154 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	From Aberystwyth with Love (Aberystwyth Noir, #5) 4.01 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Death By Elocution 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Wales, Half Welsh by John Williams (Editor), Trezza Azzopardi (Contributor), Rachel Trezise (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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Series by Malcolm Pryce

Aberystwyth Noir (6 books)
by Malcolm Pryce

3.75 avg rating — 1,299 ratings

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Quotes by Malcolm Pryce

“That's the trouble with people like you, Knight, you only know how to mock. How to break things. You don't know how to create anything. You never did.”
― Malcolm Pryce, Aberystwyth Mon Amour

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“The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.”
― Malcolm Pryce, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth

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