Mike Gayle

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Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer Mike Gayle (born October 1970) is an English journalist and novelist.<ref name="Donnell2002">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="Brady">Template:Citation</ref> He studied Sociology and Journalism at university.<ref>Gayle, Mike, United we stand, The Guardian, 20 July 2004. Accessed 11 July 2020.</ref>

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.<ref name="Donnell2002"/>

Gayle is a chick-lit author, although he has expressed a dislike for the term.<ref>Gayle, Mike, I'm a chicky chappy, The Guardian, 20 June 2008. Accessed 11 July 2020.</ref> Alongside Tony Parsons and Tim Lott, he has also been associated with a "new wave of fictions about inadequate young British masculinities".<ref name="Baldick2008">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="Brady" />

Novels

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