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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)
Take Nothing With You (2018)
Mother's Boy (2022)
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)
Take Nothing With You (2018)
Mother's Boy (2022)
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
Twelve Post-War Tales (2025)
Graham Swift
"These stories, depth charges of love, anguish, resentment, each in their way relating to the effects of WW2, are so good. Swift at his best - and he's on top form here - has the humanity and wry humour of William Trevor."
Open, Heaven (2025)
Seán Hewitt
"Sean Hewitt's Open, Heaven is a striking debut novel from a richly gifted poet and memoirist: an intensely conjured portrayal of the hopeless, all-consuming love of one lonely teenager for another and how it marks him for life. As in Hewitt's poetry, the beauties of nature erupt throughout, seeming to express the things the two boys cannot voice and the cumulative effect is as bittersweet and elegiac as birdsong."
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."
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