As part of Rick Stein’s magical survey of Cornwall’s beauties and unique culture, he pays a visit to Patrick on his farm near Land’s End. The whole show is well worth watching – the perfect escape from the dreariness of a third lockdown! – but you can …

Join Patrick for a reading of his story from the Refugee Tales project: The Embroiderer’s Tale, and support the valuable work of  Freedom From Torture in the process. As it’s a live Zoom event, you’ll have the chance to put questions to Patrick after t …

Patrick has often observed that one of the curious side effects of writing novels over a long period – in his case over thirty years – is the emergence of unintended themes in one’s work. In his case one of these is mental illness and extreme mental st …

As part of his residency at Exeter’s lovely old Custom House Museum, Patrick will be in conversation with Salley Vickers, a novelist and friend whose work he has long admired and who just happens also to have been a practising Jungian psychoanalyst. He …

As part of his residency at Exeter’s lovely old Custom House Museum, Patrick will be in conversation with his friend the painter and bibliotherapist, Ella Berthoud. They’ll talk about the theory that fiction is not simply good for extending our empathy …