Patrick Gale
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Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight, the youngest of four children.[1] His father was the prison governor of HM Prison Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, and he was brought up in and around prisons. In his 2000 novel Rough Music, the lead character is the son of a prison governor.
Gale was educated at The Pilgrims' School, the choir school for both Winchester Cathedral and Winchester College, then at Winchester College itself and at New College, University of 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.
He now lives near Land's End in Cornwall on a farm with his partner, Aidan Hicks.[2]
Novels
- The Aerodynamics of Pork (1985)
- Ease (1985)
- Kansas in August (1987)
- Facing the Tank (1988)
- Little Bits of Baby (1989)
- The Cat Sanctuary (1990)
- The Facts of Life (1996)
- Dangerous Pleasures (1996)
- Tree Surgery for Beginners (1999)
- Rough Music (2000) This is his most widely held book in libraries, owned by 673 libraries according to WorldCat [3]
- A Sweet Obscurity (2003)
- Friendly Fire (2005)
- Notes from an Exhibition (2007)
- The Whole Day Through (2009)
- Gentleman's Relish (2009)
- A Perfectly Good Man (2012)
- A Place Called Winter (2015)
His original two-part gay drama Man in an Orange Shirt will go into production in 2016. Meanwhile he is adapting Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence for BBC2 and a feature script based on Rose Tremain's short story The Housekeeper, about Daphne Du Maurier. He has also written two volumes of short stories and novellas in addition to a non-fiction book about the American novelist Armistead Maupin, with whom he has a close friendship. He is also a regular guest critic on the BBC's Saturday Review. He is patron of the Penzance Literary Festival and chairman of the North Cornwall Book Festival.
References
- ↑ Chris Beck, "Work in Progress", Weekend Australian, 11–12 November 2000, Review, p. 8
- ↑ WorldCat Identities
- ↑ WorldCat
External links
- Patrick Gale's website
- Patrick Gale's Facebook page
- Patrick Gale bibliography
- "BIGfib.com" Patrick Gale Interview
- outuk.com Interview with Patrick Gale
- Dymocks Online Interview with Patrick Gale
- Articles by Patrick Gale on the 5th Estate blog
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