Praise for Aberystwyth Mon Amour
'Promises to do for Aberystwyth what Irvine Welsh has done for Edinburgh.  I wish that all novels could be written with such cadence, such panache and such abundant comic talent' Daily Telegraph

'Not just a supremey accomplished pulp fictiob pastiche but a gloriously funny and scabrous satire on the kind of malevolent kitsch that too often passes for Welsh culture' John Williams

'Very black and very funny indeed ... mixes satire, farce, fantasy and comic strip in a world where The Famous Five meets Raymond Chandler' TLS

'Spot on.  This rollicking black comedy should be ludicrous but isn't .  Huge fun'  Arena

'Transposing the ambience of Chandler's noir LA to modern-day Aberystwyth is a surreal idea, but Malcolm Pryce pulls it off ... engaging and sharp' Face

'Noir fiction meets modern League of Gentleman weirdness in Pryce's fantstically offbeat thriller ... Pryce's deft lifting of the pace, action and deadpan tone of classic dime thrillers never lets the genre down' Scotsman

Praise for Last Tango in Aberystwyth
‘A sustained masterpiece of dark imagination … I am already looking forward to future volumes in this marvellously surreal Welsh noir series’ Daily Telegraph

‘Combines Monty Python absurdity with tenderness for the twisted world of noir … Add a clown, a brain in a box and an endearing gallery of grotesques and stir maliciously. Priceless’ Guardian

‘Pryce really is in a league of his own here; it is impossible to categorise these books … Like the best magical realism, his world is entirely internally consistent … an effortless and hilarious flow of bittersweet cynicism enlivens the bizarre proceedings … Pryce’s novels show disturbing signs of becoming a cult. If only Aberystwyth really was like this.’ Time Out

‘Malcolm Pryce delivers a hilariously surrealist take on a Chandleresque private eye in a land of druids and whelk-stalls … the off-kilter imagination that made Aberystwyth Mon Amour such fun is firing on all cylinders again’ Independent

‘Impossible-to-synopsise comedy thriller ... I’ve just finished reading a biography of the dear departed Spike Milligan, and if anyone could emulate his frantic and surreal sense of humour, then Pryce has to be awarded the laurel.  Buy it and laugh yourself sick!’ Irish Times

‘One of the things Terry Pratchett taught the world of publishing is that a comic universe is more valuable than individual comic novels.  Like Pratchett, Malcolm Pryce can slide into automatic whimsy, but Last Tango in Aberystwyth shows that his first novel was not a one-off, that his world of down-at-heel private eyes, Druid gangsters and sultry chanteuses is one that can sustain further comic invention’ TLS

‘One of the most inventively comic crime novels of recent years’ Sunday Times

‘The writing is exquisite, and Pryce has succeeded in creating a perfectly self-contained world … If you want a cult classic and to indulge in some escapism, the Pryce’s offering will serve you well’ Big Issue

Praise for The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth
‘Packed with witty and original writing … everyday life takes on extreme and absurd qualities, yet the bite of truth is never far from the surface … things are blacker than ever, involving fast and furious plotting with many gruesome twists … this Monty Python comedy is written with an intensity that makes it impossible to see the characters as cartoon outlines … the quality of writing is to be relished on every page’ Scotland on Sunday

‘Pryce’s Aberystwyth is a surreal backwater where low-lifes down ice-cream instead of Bourbon and hardened criminals intimidate using metaphysical brainteasers ... Only in the world according to Pryce they are called things like Rimbaud and Frankie Mephisto, and quote Remarque and R. S. Thomas. Malcolm Pryce is the king of Welsh noir and, as with the last book in this acclaimed series, he dishes up a dastardly mix of gothic comedy where Edgar Allen Poe meets Phoenix Nights in a flurry of blood-stained absurdity’ Sunday Telegraph — click here to read more

‘Set in hallucinatory west Wales, created half from dry social fact and half from exuberant comic fantasy … The plots entangle with spontaneous combustion, poisoned ice creams, the cloning of Jesus, buried skulls, sexy nuns, false names and lots of gunfire’ Sunday Times

‘I found myself turning down the corner of most pages, desperate not to forget its little details … It takes a peculiar talent to drag the ghost of Raymond Chandler to the west Wales coast …  A Monty Python-like humour is the prevalent tone, but Pryce’s warm touch moves it away from farce’ Word

‘The fascinating travails of Louie Knight, the lone private eye in Aberystwyth, reach their third instalment, and the tone, which began as a Monty Python meets Raymond Chandler meets The Dam Busters Welsh romp, turns darker. Louie’s latest case has a chilly and rather stark autumnal feel  … A sad sense of the inevitability of bad things happening to good people pervades this always marvellously imaginative caper, and the humour is tinged with terrible irony as even the baddies reveal all-too-human frailties. You’ll weep and laugh, on the same page. Wonderful’ Guardian

‘A baroque plot sees Knight struggling to find his missing girlfriend, who vanished after eating drugged raspberry ripple, while also trying to solve a 100-year-old mystery for an organ grinder and his monkey. Pryce has a talent for eerie, evocative prose’ Independent on Sunday

‘Welcome to Malcolm Pryce’s Aberystwyth, where the only preparation for reading is to expect the unexpected … With his whimsical imaginary underworld now fully formed, this latest novel offers a deeper delve into the devilish imagination of this extraordinary writer. Sharpening the picture with every page, Pryce creates an Aberystwyth in which nothing is what it seems and even the nuns could be out to get you. 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. Inventive, funny and dark, Pryce packs more style into a sentence than most authors could hope for in volumes’ Big Issue

‘The absurdities of his various plots are delivered with deadpan pulp seriousness’ Metro

‘Pryce’s Aberystwyth is populated by the same hoods, crooks, heavies, conmen, liars, informers, dealers and bureaucrats that prop up the street corners of Raymond Chandler’s LA, Louie himself possessing the same unshakable idealism and acid tongue as Philip Marlowe. With a droll aphorism or astute observation never more than a sentence away, it’s the vivid characters which make Pryce’s world so intriguing’ Time Out

‘This is the third in Pryce’s series of Welsh-set, ironic black comedies packed with witty and original writing which lifts them beyond the parochial. Everyday life takes on extreme and absurd qualities, yet the bit of truth is never far from the surface … The quality of writing is to be relished on every page’ Irish Times

‘While Morse had Oxford and Rebus Edinburgh, Pryce’s absurd private eye Louie Knight has to settle for the drizzly Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth’ Daily Mirror

‘His latest work finds private detective Louis Knight lost in a labyrinth of intrigue and terror, in his most dark and disturbing adventure yet’ Carmarthen Journal