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Malcolm Pryce was born in Shrewsbury in 1960 and went to school in Aberystwyth.

He read German at the universities of Warwick and Freiburg before graduating in 1984. Since then he has enjoyed a chequered career, travelling widely and holding down a number of unusual jobs. He has, for example, washed dishes in a hotel; worked on the assembly line at the BMW factory in Munich; and was, for a year, what he describes as the world’s worst aluminium salesman in the English Midlands. (He still has some aluminium if anyone wants some.)

In the early 90s he worked as an advertising copywriter in London, and then left the UK to travel the world. He took a job as a deck hand on a yacht travelling through French Polynesia and worked his passage across the South Pacific, eventually making landfall in Southeast Asia. After vagabonding through Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines he eventually settled in Singapore where he again worked in advertising.  He wrote TV commercials for Singapore Airlines, and did some notable tourist promotional advertising for the former headhunting tribes of Sarawak in northern Borneo. A group of people he describes as the most charming advertising clients he ever worked with.