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.
‘A sustained masterpiece of dark imagination ... I am already looking forward to future volumes in this marvellously surreal Welsh noir series’ Daily Telegraph
‘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
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Aberystwyth Mon Amour
Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town’s private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?
‘Spot on. This rollicking black comedy should be ludicrous but isn’t. Huge fun’ Arena
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