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A Place Called Winter
The epic and tender bestselling novel of love, compassion and living again
2015
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** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 **A s****tunning novel of love, life and pioneering love, set in Canada. A Sunday Times Top Ten hardback and paperback bestseller -selected for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club.'A mesmerising storyteller; this novel is written with intelligence and warmth' The TimesA shy but privileged elder son, Harry ...
Love Lane
A searing portrayal of escape and the power of love, home and a family
2026
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'Miraculous, mischievous and quietly devastating' Rachel Joyce'A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters' An engulfing, deeply humane novel about the triumphs and failures of human connection' Marina KempA journey. A reunion. A longing for a place called home...When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane sails home to an England transf...
The Aerodynamics of Pork
A delicious debut novel of love, music and comedy, set in the early 1980s
2018
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THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK - an irresistible story of love, sexuality, music and comedy - is the first novel from the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER and NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION, first published in 1986'A master storyteller' Independent on Sunday'Gale's concoction is irresistible: modern relationships with period charm' Armistead MaupinSeth, a musical prodigy on ...
Mother's Boy
A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son
2022
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'Tender, evocative' TLS 'Richly engaging' Spectator A Radio 4 Serial Fiction Book of the Week'A characteristically tender novel about a young man growing up in the shadow of one war and the whispers of the next' Observer'A wonderful novel about relationships, particularly between a mother and son. A compelling read, beautifully crafted and sensitively writ...
Rough Music
A gripping and evocative story of a Cornish holiday, and the dark secrets of family life
2018
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A rich, compelling and beautiful story of a marriage and the secrets a family holds...'Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and the quiet, devastating fall-out of family life' Independent'A real craftsman, a master storyteller. Quite simply, you believe every word he tells you' Independent on SundayJulian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the c...
Take Nothing With You
A richly absorbing novel of boyhood, coming of age, confusion and desire
2018
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'Absolutely one of his best - a wonderful, wonderful read' Stephen Fry'Funny and heartfelt' S***pectator***From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a compassionate, compelling new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality.'An incredibly beautiful story told with compassion. Nothing i...
The Facts of Life
An epic, intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever
2018
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Patrick Gale's THE FACTS OF LIFE is a mesmerising, epic yet intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever'Absorbing . . . deftly characterised, deeply involving and relevant' The TimesGerman composer Edward Pepper escapes to England just before the second world war begins in earnest. Struck with TB, he is recuperating in hospital when he meets Sally, a young doctor who has battled her way through medic...
Kansas in August
A witty, bawdy 1980s story of love and abandonment
2018
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Patrick Gale's second novel KANSAS IN AUGUST is a witty, warm 1980s story of sexuality, musicals, bedsits and an abandoned child'Modern, excellent and sympathetic' Stephen FryHilary Metcalfe is obsessed with musicals, and abandoned on his birthday by his lover Rufus on his birthday, he gets drunk, discovers a baby and brings it home to his flat above a corner shop to provide comfort and company.Rufus, meanwhile, allows himself to be...
Notes from an Exhibition
A thought-provoking and stunning classic novel of marriage, art and the secrets of family life
2018
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One of Patrick Gale's best-loved novels, NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION, set in Cornwall, is the exquisite story of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on Sunday'This book is complete perfection' Stephen FryCelebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that ...
Ease
A gentle, quirky novel of 1980s London and English eccentrics
2018
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The second, character-filled 1980s novel of London and quirky English eccentrics from the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER'A huge treat' Daily MailDomina Tey is a playwright, celebrated by friends, her husband, and the public alike, yet she fears losing her vital edge. Her solution: to leave her beautiful home in Bristol and seek adventure in a squalid, crumbling West London bedsit, where she will live under an assumed n...
Rough Music
A Novel
2010
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Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, Rough Music is a novel of one family at two defining points in time. Seamlessly alternating between the present day and a summer thirty years past, its twin stories unfold at a cottage along the eastern coast of England.Will Pagett receives an unexpected gift on his fortieth birthday, two weeks at a perfect beach house in Cornwall. Seeking some distance from the married man with whom he's having an affair, he invites his aging mother an...
The Whole Day Through
A stunning, compassionate novel of love, regret and the choices we make
2018
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From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER, Patrick Gale's THE WHOLE DAY THROUGH is the beautiful structured story of the choices we make when we come face to face with our past.**One summer's day, two lovers meet again...'Wry, clever, faultlessly crafted' Guardian**'Poignant and acutely observed' Daily ExpressLaura Lewis has left her life in Paris and returned home to Winchester to care for her a...