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English journalist and novelist
Mike Gayle (born October 1970) is an English journalist and novelist.
[1]
Biography
Gayle was born in
Quinton, Birmingham , to parents from
Jamaica , and is the younger brother of broadcaster
Phil Gayle . He attended
Lordswood Boys' School where he was Head Boy.
[2] He studied Sociology and Journalism at university.
[3]
Gayle edited a music
fanzine and joined a Birmingham listings magazine before moving to London and beginning a postgraduate diploma in journalism. Before having his first novel published, he was a features editor and later an
agony aunt for
Just Seventeen and
Bliss . As a freelance journalist he has written for the
Sunday Times ,
The Guardian ,
The Times , the
Daily Express ,
FHM ,
More! ,
The Scotsman and
Top of the Pops .
[1]
Gayle is a
chick-lit author, although he has expressed a dislike for the term.
[4] Alongside
Tony Parsons and
Tim Lott , he has also been associated with a "new wave of fictions about inadequate young British masculinities".
[5]
Gayle is friends with
Danny Wallace , who has dubbed Mike his Minister of Home Affairs in the Kingdom of
Lovely . He lives in
Harborne with his daughters and his wife Claire.
[2]
Novels
My Legendary Girlfriend . London: Flame, 1998.
ISBN
0-340-71816-1
Mr. Commitment . London: Flame, 1999.
ISBN
0-340-71825-0
Turning Thirty . London: Flame, 2000.
ISBN
0-340-76794-4
Dinner for Two . London: Flame, 2002.
ISBN
0-340-82342-9
His 'n' Hers , 2004.
ISBN
0-340-82537-5
Brand New Friend , 2005.
ISBN
0-340-82539-1
Wish You Were Here , 2007.
ISBN
0-340-82542-1
The Life & Soul of the Party , 2008.
ISBN
0-340-82544-8
The To Do List , 2009.
ISBN
0-340-93675-4
The Importance of Being a Bachelor , 2010.
ISBN
0-340-91851-9
The Stag and Hen Weekend , 2012.
ISBN
1444742825
Turning Forty , 2013.
ISBN
978-0-340-91853-1
Seeing Other People , 2014.
ISBN
978-1-4447-0863-9
The Hope Family Calendar , 2016.
ISBN
978-1-4736-0895-5
The Man I Think I Know , 2018.
ISBN
978-1-473-60899-3
Half a world away , 2019.
ISBN
978-1-473-68733-2
All The Lonely People , 2020.
[6]
References
^
a
b
Sunmonu, Yinka (2002). "Gayle, Mike". In
Alison Donnell (ed.).
Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture . Routledge. p. 123.
ISBN
978-1-134-70024-0 .
^
a
b Brady, Poppy (21 June 2007),
"City author's hoping for a summer hit" , Birmingham Mail , Birmingham: Trinity Mirror Midlands, archived from
the original on 12 December 2019, retrieved 29 September 2012
^ Gayle, Mike,
United we stand ,
The Guardian , 20 July 2004. Accessed 11 July 2020.
^ Gayle, Mike,
I'm a chicky chappy ,
The Guardian , 20 June 2008. Accessed 11 July 2020.
^ Baldick, Chris (2008).
The Oxford dictionary of literary terms . Oxford University Press US. pp. 181–.
ISBN
978-0-19-920827-2 . Other authors associated with this new wave of fictions about inadequate young British masculinities include Tony Parsons (
Man and Boy , 1991), Tim Lott, and Mike Gayle.
^
"Mike Gayle Author" .
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