Ep 475: Novelist and screenwriter Patrick Gale on his latest book ‘Mother’s Boy’.

Meet Patrick Gale, author of Mother’s Boy. Discover what to write in an author bio. And we have 3 copies of The Plant Hunter by T.L. Mogford to giveaway.

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Links mentioned in this episode

• Sydney Writers’ Festival
• WIN ‘The Plant Hunter’ by T.L. Mogford
• Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
• Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer

Writer in residence: Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is the author of the Emmy award-winning BBC drama, Man in an Orange Shirt and of novels including The Whole Day Through, the Richard and Judy bestsellers  Notes From An Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man, the Costa nominated A Place Called Winter and his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Take Nothing With You. His seventeenth novel, Mother’s Boy,  is based around the known facts of the boyhood and youth of the great Cornish poet, Charles Causley and the life of the mother who raised him singlehandedly.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers’ Centre and our course Novel Writing Essentials

Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).

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