Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is the author of sixteen novels and many short stories. He is a keen cellist, gardener and artistic director of the North Cornwall Book Festival. He lives with his husband, the farmer and sculptor, Aidan Hicks, on their farm at the far west of Cornwall. In addition to his latest, Take Nothing With You, which was his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, his novels include 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 and won the International Emmy for best miniseries. His story of schoolgirl vampirism, A Slight Chill, has just been filmed. He’s working on a novel based on the lives of Charles Causley and his mother, recently wrote a screenplay of Rose Tremain’s The Housekeeper and is writing a television adaptation of A Place Called Winter.