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My iMac and pretty much all things Mac-related, Toys I wanted when I was nine years old, film, TV, DVD box sets, books and talking general rubbish.Music
Bloc Party, Lalo Schifrin, Barbara Morgenstern, Animals That Swim, The Beat, Editors, Dntel, Ellen Allien, Jolie Holland, Go Home Productions, Richard X, The Wedding Present, Broken Social Scene, The Whitest Boy Alive, Junior Boys, Arctic Monkeys, Kylie, Erlend Oye, Richard Hawley, Bjork, Pet Shop Boys, Hot Chip, David Kitt, Adam and the Ants, Death Cab For Cutie, Blondie, The Streets, Lily Allen, the first thre UB40 albums, Fleetwood Mac, Fiona Apple, LCD Soundsystem, Iron and Wine, Gwen McCrae, Four Tet, Adem, Human League, Mariah Carey, John Legend, Tom Vek, The Smiths, Kate Bush, Red House Painters, Joe Jackson, Komeit, Teenage Fanclub, Sly and the Family Stone, Mice Parade, Phoenix, classic Phil Collins, Roisin Murphy, Ray LaMontangne, Josh Rouse, The Lucksmiths, Playgroup, Out Hud, Altered Images, Nouvelle Vague, New Order, Nellie Mckay, Jamie T, Mos Def, Loo and Placido,Movies
Out of Sight, Four Weddings.., Heat, Leon, Gregory's Girl, Memento, Hitch, Betty Blue, Leaving Las Vegas, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Mission Impossible 3, Blade, It's a Wonderful Life, Feris Bueller's Day Off. Pretty in Pink, The Last Seduction, Before Sunrise, Once, Salvador, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind and When Harry Met Sally.Television
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Douglas Coupland, William Sutcliffe, Nick Hornby, Madeline St John, Alain de Botton, Clive James, Lauren Grodstein, Danny WallaceHeroes
Anyone who instead of just sitting there thinks to themselves, "I'll have a go."
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About me:
Dear All, my name's Mike and I write books. You can buy my books in shops at which point they will cease to be *my* books and become *your* books. So far I've had eight published with Hodder and Stoughton: My Legendary Girlfriend, Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty, Dinner For Two, His 'n' Hers, Brand New Friend, Wish You Were Here and The Life and Soul of The Party. In my spare time I like to mooch, stare out of the window or watch TV. I'm crazy like that. Anyway be good to each other. cheers Mike PS. Book number nine, (my first foray into non-fiction) The To Do List is out now! PPS. I also have a website: mikegayle dot co ukWho I'd like to meet:
Ferris Bueller, Michael Mann and myself coming the other way (how weird would that be bumping into yourself?)Details
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10 of 378Morethanks for the add Mike
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Meli.
Hey Mike!
Long time no speak!!
(yeah, I'm the French girl with the "weird" firstname with whom you exchanged a couple of mails over the last 6 years or so...)
I usually buy your books the day they're out but this time, I have a good excuse: I gave birth to a baby boy called Ginji on dec.27th ;-)
Anyway:
MY to-do-list:
1) Buy Mike's last book "The to-do list"
2) Hope that Mini-Me allows me 5 minutes of peace now and then so I can read it! (if he doesn't, send him to Mike and have Mike babysit him, I've heard it was part of his "after-sales service"! hehe!)
All the best to you Mike and keep up the good work! :)
--Fanny--
Hi Mike,
just reading "The To Do List" and love it. Wonderful, funny, great...
Cheers from Germany
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Hi Mike
I'm 3/4 of the way thru The To Do List and enjoying every minute.
You have inspired me to get all of those little jobs out of the way like sorting out passwords for stuff that I have forgotten and changing our address on our re-directed mail so we can at some point end the service. I also have to make lists because since having my second daughter who is now 4 and constantly on the go my memory is terrible and if I don't do things the instant I think of them I forget it. I even managed to forget our evening wear this weekend for a party that we had to travel to birmingham for. We had to go shopping for new stuff and I was gutted, I didn't realise I'd forgotten it until we got onto the M42. Doh!
Hey!
I'm Helen and I'm nearly finished your biography, The To-Do List. It's an amazing book, and you're a fantastic writer. After University I would love to become an author and I've been told that some of my writings are really good but I'm scared I wont get anywhere with it :-(
i was wondering if you could share some hints and tips? How did you manage to get your career started? Hope to hear from you soon, best wishes, Helen x
Loving the new book, Mike, will have to come and meet you again to get this one signed for my collection! Keep up the excellent work, love Gilly x

any chance of a book signing any where in London/Essex any time soon?
your no.1 fan;
Hollie
♥x
Can..t wait to read you new book.
After reading a Gayle book I've always the feeling of "I-just-have-read-the-greatest-book-ever" =)