Patrick is talking about Love Lane in an online book club event as part of Chiswick Book Festival – in other words you can attend wherever in the world you happen to live. 6pm UK time. Tickets are a snip at £4 and you can book them by clicking on this …

A trip to Bridport Literary Festival is always a highlight of any book tour. Patrick will be at the Electric Palace on November 13 at 1.30. Tickets and full details will be posted nearer the time on the festival website.

As part of a visit to Derbyshire to support the work of libraries and National Year of Reading 2026, Patrick will be giving a talk in Chesterfield Library at 7 pm. He will be talking about his new novel, Love Lane, which takes up the story where his ea …

As part of a visit to Derbyshire to support the work of libraries and National Year of Reading 2026, Patrick will be doing a daytime talk at 11 am in Staveley Library. He will be talking about his new novel, Love Lane, which takes up the story where hi …

Patrick will be joining the stellar line-up at this year’s Greenbelt Festival to give a reading as part of his involvement in the Refugee Tales project, where refugees who have been indefinitely detained without trial or charge get to tell their story …

Patrick is delighted to be returning to Cambridge for its literary festival’s Winter Weekend. Full details will be posted, along with ticket booking details, on the festival’s website nearer the time.

Patrick is delighted to be returning to beautiful Wells for the Wells Festival of Literature. He’ll be talking about Love Lane at 6pm but full details will not be published until the early autumn. The place to find them, and tickets, will be the festiv …

Patrick is delighted not only to be returning to The Coast is Queer – Brighton’s LGBTIQ literary festival – but that he’ll be in conversation there with rising star of queer fiction, Curtis Garner. 3.30. Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, Gardner C …

Patrick is delighted to be returning to the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival where he’ll be in conversation with his old friend, Tim Hubbard about Love Lane. Their talk will be at 7.30 in St Peter’s Church and tickets will cost £15 from the festiva …

Patrick is thrilled to be sharing at stage at the Wimbledon BookFest with his old friend Louise Doughty. He’ll be talking about Love Lane, which has a great deal of common ground with Louise’s powerful memoir of her parent’s 1950s marriage, On This Spo …