Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is the author of eighteen novels and many short stories.

He is a keen cellist, gardener, beekeeper and patron of the Charles Causley Trust, and the Penzance LitFest, a trustee of the Penzance Orchestral Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He lives with his husband, the farmer and sculptor, Aidan Hicks, on their farm at the far west of Cornwall.

Featured on Gardener’s World, the garden they’ve created from scratch at Trevilley, is open for charity throughout June.

In addition to his latest, Love Lane, his novels include Mother’s Boy, a fictional take on the boyhood and youth of the Cornish poet, Charles Causley, Take Nothing With You, which was his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Rough Music (2000), Notes From an Exhibition (2007), A Perfectly Good Man (2012) and A Place Called Winter (2015).

In 2017 his Man in an Orange Shirt was screened by BBC2 as part of the Gay Britannia season, won the International Emmy for best miniseries and is currently in development as a musical.

Trafalgar Studios has commissioned a stage play from him based on Take Nothing With You. Extracts from the BBC documentary All Families Have Secrets – the Narrative Art of Patrick Gale can be seen on his website www.galewarning.org. The full 30 minutes version can be seen by going to https://vimeo.com/257900094?fl=ip&fe=ec and using the password Bolehyde.