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Mike

mikegayle

About Me

Dear All, my name's Mike and I write books. You can buy my books in shops at which point they will cease to be *my* books and become *your* books. So far I've had seven published with Hodder and Stoughton: My Legendary Girlfriend, Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty, Dinner For Two, His 'n' Hers, Brand New Friend and Wish You Were Here.In my spare time I like to mooch, stare out of the window or watch TV. I'm crazy like that. Anyway be good to each other.cheersMikePS. Book number eight, The Life and Soul of The Party will be out AUGUST 2008 and the paperback of Wish You Were Here will be out June 2008.PPS. I also have a website: mikegayle dot co uk

My Interests

My iMac and pretty much all things Mac-related, Toys I wanted when I was nine years old, film, TV, DVD box sets, books and talking general rubbish.

I'd like to meet:

Ferris Bueller, Michael Mann and myself coming the other way (how weird would that be bumping into yourself?)

Music:

Bloc Party, Lalo Schifrin, Barbara Morgenstern, Animals That Swim, The Beat, Editors, Dntel, Ellen Allien, Jolie Holland, Go Home Productions, Richard X, The Wedding Present, Broken Social Scene, The Whitest Boy Alive, Junior Boys, Arctic Monkeys, Kylie, Erlend Oye, Richard Hawley, Bjork, Pet Shop Boys, Hot Chip, David Kitt, Adam and the Ants, Death Cab For Cutie, Blondie, The Streets, Lily Allen, the first thre UB40 albums, Fleetwood Mac, Fiona Apple, LCD Soundsystem, Iron and Wine, Gwen McCrae, Four Tet, Adem, Human League, Mariah Carey, John Legend, Tom Vek, The Smiths, Kate Bush, Red House Painters, Joe Jackson, Komeit, Teenage Fanclub, Sly and the Family Stone, Mice Parade, Phoenix, classic Phil Collins, Roisin Murphy, Ray LaMontangne, Josh Rouse, The Lucksmiths, Playgroup, Out Hud, Altered Images, Nouvelle Vague, New Order, Nellie Mckay, Jamie T, Mos Def, Loo and Placido,

Movies:

Out of Sight, Four Weddings.., Heat, Leon, Gregory's Girl, Memento, Hitch, Betty Blue, Leaving Las Vegas, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Mission Impossible 3, Blade, It's a Wonderful Life, Feris Bueller's Day Off. Pretty in Pink, The Last Seduction, Before Sunrise, Once, Salvador, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind and When Harry Met Sally.

Television:

Seinfeld, Happiness, Will and Grace, Medium, The Sopranos, Alias, The King of Queens, The Shield, The OC, Shameless, Prime Suspect, Location Location Location, Property Ladder, The Apprentice (UK and US), Battlestar Galactica, Joking Apart and Hill Street Blues.

Books:

Douglas Coupland, William Sutcliffe, Nick Hornby, Madeline St John, Alain de Botton, Clive James, Lauren Grodstein, Danny Wallace

Heroes:

Anyone who instead of just sitting there thinks to themselves, "I'll have a go."

My Blog

Wirral Book Festival Monday 7th April

Hello all,hope you’re well. It’s just occurred to me that I haven’t got round to plugging an event that I’m taking part in along with Jenny Colgan and JoJo Moyes. It’s al...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:35:00 PST

Stuff!

Hi, it's been a while so I thought I'd better give you a news update.1. Thanks for all the title suggestions. They were much appreciated and as most of you pointed out it's not exactly an easy task to...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:23:00 PST

Pub dates!!!

Just a quickie to let you know about release dates for 2008:Wish You Were Here will be out in paperback 10th July 2008...and if that's not enough a brand spanking new book: The Life and Soul of The Pa...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:06:00 PST

Happy New Year!

So.....hello. It's 2008 and one of my new year's resolutions is to have a go at blogging. Despite being aware of blogs for at least ten minutes now I've resisted so far on the basis that I wasn't sur...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:54:00 PST

Friday 26 October 2007 GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL

GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVALFriday 26 October 2007, 7:30pmĀ£8. The Electric Theatre, Onslow StreetDear all, I'm going to be appearing at Guilford Book Festival and would love to see you all there. It's goin...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:12:00 PST

New Stuff!

Hi, just (another) quick(ish) note to let you know what I'm up to. But before I get started on all that I'd just like to offer a massive cheers to everyone who bought Wish You Were Here, and made it t...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:45:00 PST

Latitude Festival/Radio Four

Hi just a quick note to say that as well as appearing in the literature tent at Latitude festival at 5pm on Sunday I will also be reading a brand new short story which will be recorded for broadcast o...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:10:00 PST

Latitude Festival

Hello again,just a quick heads up to let you know that along with a whole host of music, comedy and literary acts I'll be appearing at Latitude Festival in the Literary Arena, Sunday 15th July at 5.00...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:45:00 PST

Hull Literature Festival - Saturday 23rd June, 1pm

Himore travel news! I'm coming to the Humber Mouth Festival in Hull. I'll be talking about Wish You Were Here and writing in general, taking questions and no doubt juggling small animals. It would be ...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:57:00 PST

Read the first chapter of Wish You Were Here for free!!!!

Dear allhere the first couple of pages from Wish You Were Here to whet the appetite. They're straight off my computer so they're unedited (for some reason I don't seem to be able to find the edited ve...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:49:00 PST