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Malcolm Pryce

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Born

in Shrewsbury, The United Kingdom

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http://www.malcolmpryce.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Humor

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Raymond Chandler ...more

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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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A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth

Hi Everybody

I’ve just set this profile up to announce the forthcoming launch of the seventh novel in my ‘Aberystwyth Noir’ series. 'A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth.'

I haven’t been here before but there seem to be about 100 or so followers who might be interested to get this news. Hi to you all and thanks for your interest in my books.

The first six books were traditionally published by Bloomsbury, bu Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 22, 2024 10:39

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Malcolm Pryce’s books

Average rating: 3.77 · 7,795 ratings · 629 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Aberystwyth Mon Amour (Aberystwyth Noir, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 3,042 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Tango in Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #3) 3.88 avg rating — 996 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Aberystwyth with Love (Aberystwyth Noir, #5) 3.99 avg rating — 641 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still (Aberystwyth Noir, #6) 4.03 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste 3.55 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #7) 4.37 avg rating — 70 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corpse The Garden Of Perfect Brightness 3.53 avg rating — 85 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aberystwyth Mon Amour - The Walking Tour: An Audio Adventure narrated by the Author by Malcolm Pryce (Goodreads Author), Matt Addis (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Adrian Metcalfe (Narrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Malcolm Pryce (?)

“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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“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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“No, the truth about love is this: if they’d missed the bus they would now be saying the same things about a person they met five minutes later on the Prom; their love was an accident; their lover just a nobody, gift-wrapped by their own imagination. There was nothing uncanny about it. They should have kept the drawbridge to their hearts closed; kept the moat free from weed.”
― Malcolm Pryce, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth

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The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

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Silent Night by Nell Pattison

4 votes, 25.0%

Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

3 votes, 18.8%

I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

2 votes, 12.5%

Mr. Dickens and His Carol bySamantha Silva

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Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce

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