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Patrick Gale
(b.1962)Patrick Gale is a British author who lives in Cornwall. His father was the prison governor of Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight when Gale was born, and he was brought up in and around prisons.
Gale was educated at The Pilgrims' School, the choir college for both Winchester Cathedral and Winchester College, then at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford. Following university he had a range of jobs while he sang for the London Philharmonic Choir and wrote his first novel, The Aerodynamics of Pork while working as a waiter in an all-night restaurant.
Gale was educated at The Pilgrims' School, the choir college for both Winchester Cathedral and Winchester College, then at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford. Following university he had a range of jobs while he sang for the London Philharmonic Choir and wrote his first novel, The Aerodynamics of Pork while working as a waiter in an all-night restaurant.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, General Fiction
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Novels
The Aerodynamics of Pork (1986)
Ease (1986)
Kansas in August (1987)
Facing the Tank (1988)
Little Bits of Baby (1989)
The Cat Sanctuary (1990)
The Facts of Life (1995)
Tree Surgery for Beginners (1998)
The Scarlet Boy (1998) (with Tom Wakefield)
Rough Music (2000)
A Sweet Obscurity (2003)
Friendly Fire (2005)
Notes from an Exhibition (2007)
The Whole Day Through (2009)
A Perfectly Good Man (2012)
A Place Called Winter (2015)
Take Nothing With You (2018)
Mother's Boy (2022)
Love Lane (2026)
Ease (1986)
Kansas in August (1987)
Facing the Tank (1988)
Little Bits of Baby (1989)
The Cat Sanctuary (1990)
The Facts of Life (1995)
Tree Surgery for Beginners (1998)
The Scarlet Boy (1998) (with Tom Wakefield)
Rough Music (2000)
A Sweet Obscurity (2003)
Friendly Fire (2005)
Notes from an Exhibition (2007)
The Whole Day Through (2009)
A Perfectly Good Man (2012)
A Place Called Winter (2015)
Take Nothing With You (2018)
Mother's Boy (2022)
Love Lane (2026)
Collections
Secret Lives (1991) (with Francis King and Tom Wakefield)
Dangerous Pleasures (1996)
Gentleman's Relish (2009)
Three Decades of Stories (2018)
Dangerous Pleasures (1996)
Gentleman's Relish (2009)
Three Decades of Stories (2018)
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Patrick Gale recommends
Theft (2025)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
"Modesty and modest people are so hard to write about wittily and well yet Abdulrazak Gurnah luminously portrays the early years of a modest young man of no obvious importance. Theft is a morality tale in the truest sense: an unshowy, vividly evocative story about the things that matter, and the flimflam that really doesn't."
Shy Creatures (2024)
Clare Chambers
"I adored Shy Creaturesand eked out this addictive treat as long as I could and now can only urge anyone with an interest in psychiatry, siblings, Croydon, buried trauma, adultery, the early 60s or simply humanity to seek it out. Once again, Clare Chambers reveals her unflinching grasp of human fallibility and eye for the resonant detail that make the reader care deeply about her characters' fates. A lively, funny, forgiving novel which I bet will do just as well as Small Pleasures."
The In-Between (2024)
Christos Tsiolkas
"A thoroughly grown-up portrayal of grown-up love - tender, candid and seriously moving."
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