Mike Gayle

Not to be confused with Mike Gale.

Mike Gayle
Mike Gayle
Mike Gayle
BornOctober 1970 (age 55)
Quinton, Birmingham, England
OccupationAuthor
GenreLad lit, popular fiction
Website
mikegayle.co.uk

Mike Gayle (born October 1970) is an English journalist and novelist.[1]

Biography

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

  • My Legendary Girlfriend. London: Flame, 1998. ISBN 0-340-71816-1
  • Mr. Commitment. London: Flame, 1999. ISBN 0-340-71825-0
  • Turning Thirty. London: Flame, 2000. ISBN 0-340-76794-4
  • Dinner for Two. London: Flame, 2002. ISBN 0-340-82342-9
  • His 'n' Hers, 2004. ISBN 0-340-82537-5
  • Brand New Friend, 2005. ISBN 0-340-82539-1
  • Wish You Were Here, 2007. ISBN 0-340-82542-1
  • The Life & Soul of the Party, 2008. ISBN 0-340-82544-8
  • The To Do List, 2009. ISBN 0-340-93675-4
  • The Importance of Being a Bachelor, 2010. ISBN 0-340-91851-9
  • The Stag and Hen Weekend, 2012. ISBN 1444742825
  • Turning Forty, 2013. ISBN 978-0-340-91853-1
  • Seeing Other People, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4447-0863-9
  • The Hope Family Calendar, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4736-0895-5
  • The Man I Think I Know, 2018. ISBN 978-1-473-60899-3
  • Half a world away, 2019. ISBN 978-1-473-68733-2
  • All The Lonely People, 2020.[6]
  • Hope Street, 2025

References

  1. ^ a b Sunmonu, Yinka (2002). "Gayle, Mike". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-134-70024-0.
  2. ^ a b Brady, Poppy (21 June 2007), "City author's hoping for a summer hit", Birmingham Mail, Birmingham: Trinity Mirror Midlands, archived from the original on 12 December 2019, retrieved 29 September 2012
  3. ^ Gayle, Mike, United we stand, The Guardian, 20 July 2004. Accessed 11 July 2020.
  4. ^ Gayle, Mike, I'm a chicky chappy, The Guardian, 20 June 2008. Accessed 11 July 2020.
  5. ^ Baldick, Chris (2008). The Oxford dictionary of literary terms. Oxford University Press US. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-0-19-920827-2. Other authors associated with this new wave of fictions about inadequate young British masculinities include Tony Parsons (Man and Boy, 1991), Tim Lott, and Mike Gayle.
  6. ^ "Mike Gayle Author".


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