Mike Gayle
Mike Gayle | |
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| Mike Gayle Mike Gayle | |
| Born | October 1970 (age 55) Quinton, Birmingham, England |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Lad lit, popular fiction |
| Website | |
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Mike Gayle (born October 1970) is an English journalist and novelist.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- My Legendary Girlfriend. London: Flame, 1998. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Mr. Commitment. London: Flame, 1999. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Turning Thirty. London: Flame, 2000. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Dinner for Two. London: Flame, 2002. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- His 'n' Hers, 2004. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Brand New Friend, 2005. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Wish You Were Here, 2007. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Life & Soul of the Party, 2008. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The To Do List, 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Importance of Being a Bachelor, 2010. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Stag and Hen Weekend, 2012. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Turning Forty, 2013. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Seeing Other People, 2014. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Hope Family Calendar, 2016. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Man I Think I Know, 2018. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Half a world away, 2019. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- All The Lonely People, 2020.[6]
- Hope Street, 2025
References
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- ^ 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.
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External links
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Writers from Birmingham, West Midlands
- Journalists from Birmingham, West Midlands
- Black British writers
- British advice columnists
- English male journalists
- 21st-century English novelists
- English people of Jamaican descent
- English male novelists
- 21st-century English male writers
- People educated at Lordswood Boys' School
- British journalist stubs
- British novelist stubs