Bridport Prize 2012 Judge

Patrick Gale has written fourteen novels, the twelfth of which, Notes from an Exhibition, was the Independent Booksellers' Association Adult Book of 2008 and a Richard and Judy selection. Rough Music, A Sweet Obscurity and Friendly Fire, are beginning to win him a European following thanks to successful translations into French and Dutch. His thirteenth novel, The Whole Day Through was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and a Sainsbury's Book Club selection. 2009 saw the publication of Gentleman's Relish, his second collection of short stories. His fourteenth novel, A Perfectly Good Man, will be published by Fourth Estate in March 2012.

He was born on the Isle of Wight in 1962, raised in Winchester and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He now lives on his husband's farm at Land's End in Cornwall. As well as writing fiction, he is a keen musician, playing the 'cello in the Belerion Consort, the Tartini Ensemble and the Penzance Orchestral Society. He is a dog lover, a keen cook and an obsessive gardener.

To find out more about Patrick and his novels, visit www.galewarning.org.

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