To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, lost in a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart, and where the Dean's own heart is hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice.
Malcolm Pryce has worked as an advertising copywriter, in London and later Singapore. During this time he created campaigns for the famous Singapore Girl, and also wrote tourist promotional advertising for the former headhunting tribes of borneo - a group of people he describes as the most civilized clients he ever dealt with. He now lives in Bangkok.
Title: Last Tango in Aberystwyth
Author: Malcolm Pryce
ISBN: 9781408800669
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 2009-02-20
Number of Pages: 272
Weight: 2.0051 kg
'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 is in a league of his own ... effortless and hilarious ... Pryce's novels show disturbing signs of becoming a cult. If only Aberystwyth was really like this' Time Out