Mike Gayle
Biography of Mike Gayle :
Mike Gayle is an author and freelance journalist contributing to a variety of magazines including FHM and Sunday Times Style.
He was a features editor and later an agony aunt for Just Seventeen and Bliss before he had his first novel published. He is friends with Danny Wallace who made Mike his Minister of Home Affairs, in the Kingdom of Lovely. He is the younger brother of Phil Gayle.
Some of his books
My Legendary Girlfriend (1998)
Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for An-Other One. In his decrepit flat, Will\'s lifeline is the telephone. There\'s Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn\'t), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. His Legendary Girlfriend. Or is she? Two men, three women and a donkey called Sandy... basically it\'s your classic love hexagon.
Turning Thirty (2000)
Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him. Unable to cope with his future falling apart Matt temporarily moves back to his parents. During his enforced exodus only his old school mates can keep him sane. Friends he hasn\'t seen since he was nineteen. Back together after a decade apart. But things will never be the same for any of them because when you’re turning thirty nothing’s as simple as it used to be.
Dinner for Two (2002)
When Dave Harding holds his friend\'s newborn baby, the biological clock he never knew existed starts ticking. Loudly. Which wouldn\'t be so bad except his partner Izzy has no nine-month plans for fat ankles or trips to Baby Gap. Then the music mag folds and Dave is temporarily forced to become Agony Uncle for \'Teen Scene\'. Knee deep in the adolescent outpourings of his readership, Dave opens one letter from a girl who doesn\'t want advice about boys - she wants to know about Dave. Because she\'s convinced that Dave Harding is her dad. And she\'s got the facts to prove it.
The Importance of Being a Bachelor (2010)
Relationships. Some people get it. The rest are men… George and Joan Bachelor are the proud (albeit slightly disappointed) parents of three grown-up boys whose lives aren’t quite what they had hoped for… Adam is addicted to TWKGs (The Wrong Kinds of Girls); Luke bears the scars of a savage divorce; and ‘baby’ Russell’s love life contains nothing but heartache. When months shy of his 40th wedding anniversary George Bachelor announces he’s leaving the family home to try his hand at the single life, everything is thrown into turmoil. Now as well as sorting out their own love lives, the boys have got to sort out their parents’ too…or face losing the one thing they thought they could always count on.
The Two-do list
One man, two birthdays and a 52-week attempt to tackle a 1277-item To-do List ... On the eve of his 36th birthday, bestselling author and journalist Mike Gayle picked up a pen and contemplated his life. In less than twenty-four hours he would be officially closer to 40 than to 30; his second child was due; his ten-year wedding anniversary imminent - despite his best efforts he had become an adult. Well, nearly. Gripped by a determination to sort out his life once and for all, Mike writes a To-do list of all the things he has meant to do but never quite got round to. Everything from empty kitchen of Chinese takeaway menus to spend more time with parents because they won\'t always be around. It\'s a long list. There\'s a lot of stuff that needs doing. But unlike previous lists, made and long abandoned, Mike promises himself that this one will actually get done