Patrick is delighted to be returning to the Sevenoaks Literary Festival, where he’ll be talking about Love Lane at 4pm in Trinity School Auditorium. Tickets are £14.50 and you can get a day pass for £25, which also lets you hear Prue Leith at 2pm. Full …

Patrick is delighted to be making his first visit to the Cuckfield Book Festival, having heard great things from his friends who have taken part.  He’ll be in conversation with his old friend, the novelist and memoirist, Tiffany Murray. 7pm in Queen’s …

Patrick will be returning to the Tolmen Centre so that Love Lane can be the focus of its monthly book talk in October. Tickets are 7.50 from the centre’s website  and the talk will start with cheese and biscuits from 6.30 before kicking off at 7.

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 He’ll be talking about Love Lane with George Miller at 6pm but full details will not be published until the early autumn.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 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 …

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.

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 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.