Join us at Rugby Library as we chat with author Mike Gayle about his books, writing and his latest title Hope Street. Did you know that Mike's All The Lonely People was shortlisted for the Pageturner of the Year Award at the 2021 British Book Awards, which means this is the perfect event for our Book Bingo category 'A book that has been shortlisted for a prize'!

Hope Street

Lila Metcalfe is a trainee journalist in Derby and she's very used to being given the stories that no one else wants. So, when her editor tells her that the city's Cossington Park development is being held up by a solitary resident on Hope Street who is refusing to leave, she knows she is going to be the one sent to find out more. And that's how she meets Connor.

Twenty-something Connor is the sole resident of Hope Street and he is not at all what Lila is expecting. And he has a very clear reason not to move: he is waiting for his mum to come home.

The uplifting and heartfelt new novel from the author of A Song of Me and You.

About the author

Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. After graduating from Salford University with a degree in Sociology, he moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and worked as a features editor and agony uncle. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan.

Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by the Independent as 'Full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations,' and by The Times as 'A funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic'. Since then he has written eigteen novels including The Man I Think I Know, selected as a World Book Night title, and Half a World Away, selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2021, Mike was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.

He lives in Birmingham with his wife and kids.

You can find him online at mikegayle.co.uk and on Twitter @mikegayle.

Refreshments provided. There will be copies of Mikes's books for sale at the event, courtesy of Hunt's Bookshop.

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In Conversation with Mike Gayle