Patrick is delighted to be able to return to this favourite book festival in pretty North Devon. He’ll be talking about Love Lane in St Mary’s Church at 5pm. Tickets are available from the festival’s website.

On his first visit to this festival, Patrick is joining with Kate Lord Brown and Rachel Hore for a book club author panel on Family Secrets, with Kate talking about The Silver Thread Rachel about the French Spymistress and Patrick about Love Lane. 4.30 …

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.

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 from September 11.

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 He’ll be talking about Love Lane with George Miller at 6pm but full details will not be published until the early autumn.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

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 cost £15 from the festival web …

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 …