Patrick Gale

in 2017 he made his screenwriting debut with Man in an Orange Shirt, a two part original drama which formed part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season. The show won the 2018 International Emmy for Best Miniseries.

Published in 2000, his Rough Music is his most widely held book in libraries, owned by 673 libraries according to WorldCat

Describing himself as the "last novelist in England", he has lived in Cornwall since 1988, a county much celebrated in his novels. He is artistic director of the North Cornwall Book Festival, which he helped found, and is held at St Endellion in the first week of October each year. He is a patron of the Charles Causley Trust, the Penzance LitFest and Literature Works.

His first two novels, The Aerodynamics of Pork, and Ease, were published on the same day in 1985.

Patrick Evelyn Hugh Sadler Gale (born 31 January 1962) is a British novelist.

Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight, the youngest of four children. His father was the prison governor of HM Prison Camp Hill on the Isle of Wight, and he was brought up in and around prisons. In 1969 the family moved to Winchester and his father became Under-Secretary of State for Prisons. In his 2000 novel Rough Music, the lead character is the son of a prison governor.