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Case of the Hail Mary Celeste
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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 washerup, 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 and, most recently, The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still. @exogamist / www.malcolmpryce.com
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Complex absurdity of a very special sort. Anyone who loves steam trains, detective thrillers and PG Wodehouse will feel distinctly at home Jasper Fforde An utter delight - this cocktail of the surreal and the terrifyingly real is a rare entertainment for rail fans and crime fans alike Michael Williams, author of On the Slow Train Gripping Britain An arresting mixture of Boy's Own Adventure, Fifties gumshoe novel and oddly affecting love story, this is an absolute treat Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week Wildly funny, admirably eccentric and warm and humane, this sumptuously detailed book is also strangely topical in its reminder of the contempt and indifference with which our rulers have always viewed us Morning Star
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