Patrick Gale Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Patrick Gale is a novelist. Gardener-cellist-cook &, time allowing, writer. He/him. A Place Called Winter, Man in an Orange Shirt. Artistic Director @NCornBookFest. Latest: Mother's Boy.
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
Laura CummingPatrick GaleI can’t wait to hear @LauraCummingArt talk about Thunderclap at @NCornBookFest. Book of the week in the latest Guardian reviews… https://t.co/rSxqaOYng7
Hardcover, 2023
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Couldn't Love You More
Esther FreudPatrick GaleSusie Boyt’s Loved & Missed and Esther Freud’s I Couldn’t Love You More are devastating takes on motherhood and domesticity from two crazily talented half-sisters who’ve never shared a stage. I cannot wait to interview them! https://t.co/TgoAbdl1lk https://t.co/6ZqiQqGI9a https://t.co/A2BJO1Inu2
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Old Mortality: Complete
Walter ScottPatrick GaleClearing shelves after death of dvd player, probably from dust, I find our inherited but distinctly mildewy complete Walter Scott takes up over a metre & suspect I shall never read even Old Mortality again. And then there are Great Granny’s Dumas. Cherish or charity? https://t.co/pw6dRkG6hz
Paperback, 2015
$9.97$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Heart of Midlothian: Complete
Walter ScottPatrick GaleClearing shelves after death of dvd player, probably from dust, I find our inherited but distinctly mildewy complete Walter Scott takes up over a metre & suspect I shall never read even Old Mortality again. And then there are Great Granny’s Dumas. Cherish or charity? https://t.co/pw6dRkG6hz
Paperback, 2015
$10.97$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Less
Andrew Sean GreerPatrick GaleIf you enjoyed Andrew Sean Greer’s Less as much as I did, you are in for an autumn treat. This sequel, Less Is Lost, manages to improve on its predecessor by being tender as well as funny. It also contains a spot-on portrayal of a pug preparing for bed. … https://t.co/70zK3oNuOY https://t.co/tJ3jA8L45A
Paperback, 2018
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saltwater
Jessica AndrewsPatrick GaleMilk Teeth, the second novel from Jessica Andrews @itbeginswiththebody, Milk Teeth, is even better than her mesmerising Saltwater. This is an evocation of young, compulsive love and erotic hunger that makes the competition feel imprecise and dishonest by… https://t.co/90LZWuXlaK https://t.co/bFBuCw4S1P
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Italian Teacher
Tom RachmanPatrick GaleWith The Imposters Tom Rachman surpasses the already astonishing achievements of The Italian Teacher. His satire is often brutally funny, but always rooted in a humane acceptance that our flaws are what make us us. This is a dizzying switchback tale of o… https://t.co/XoKOV18Vl3 https://t.co/YfuixFafph
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Garnett Girls
Georgina MoorePatrick GaleHappy publication day to my clever pal, and publicity genius, @georginamooreauthor. If you haven’t bought and read The Garnett Girls by the end of this year, you’re probably reading this in a Russian tweet factory. https://t.co/RNLmVATtay https://t.co/A2biOoIY4Y
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Douglas StuartPatrick GaleClose to Home does for Belfast what Shuggie Bain did for Glasgow and is a truly compelling debut. Its portrayal of a particular kind of masculinity - self-destructive and romantic by turns - is unsparing, funny and desperately sad. Keep an eye on Michael… https://t.co/Hd9dgv5qE5 https://t.co/vp18vhkytr
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pure
Andrew MillerPatrick Gale@carolatte44 Needs must! There are always so many submissions, from which about 95% has to be winnowed. When I judged the Costa the pile of interesting-but-imperfect was huge. (Pleased to say Andrew Miller’s amazing Pure won that year.)
Paperback, 2012
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book