Background
Patrick Neate was born on October 27, 1970, in Putney, London, England, United Kingdom.
2004
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Author Patrick Neate poses for a portrait at the annual "Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival" held at the Oxford Union on March 26, 2004, in Oxford, England. Photo by David Levenson
2004
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Author Patrick Neate poses for a portrait at the annual "Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival" held at the Oxford Union on March 26, 2004, in Oxford, England. Photo by David Levenson
2009
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Writer Patrick Neate attends Day 2 of the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on March 30, 2009, in Oxford, England. Photo by David Levenson
Lonsdale Rd, Barnes, London SW13 9JT, United Kingdom
Patrick Neate was educated at St. Paul's School.
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Patrick Neate earned a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University.
City, University of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Patrick Neate studied journalism at City, University of London.
(Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on t...)
Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, clings to power whilst his soldiers switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear. All in all, Zimbabwe is not the ideal location for student-teacher Jim Tulloh to indulge in a spot of character building. Yet with the help of Musa, the local witchdoctor, some flatulent weed, and headmaster, PK, Jim's days look set to be mellow in the extreme; until that is Jim is kidnapped from his bush school by the rebel Black Boot Gang. But it is when the Gangers invoke the spirit of Zambawi's Great Chief Tuloko that Jim's fate takes a really unexpected turn...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Musungu-Jim-Great-Chief-Tuloko/dp/0140286551
2000
(Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet playe...)
Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans, in a lively novel that won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award.
https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Bar-Blues-Patrick-Neate/dp/0802117279/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Twelve+Bar+Blues&qid=1581936808&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(There are Tariq and Emma, Tom and Karen, Kwesi, Freya, an...)
There are Tariq and Emma, Tom and Karen, Kwesi, Freya, and Ami - city-dwelling thirty-somethingers whose youthful hopes and dreams have dissolved into failing careers, failing relationships, and failing health. And yet their dissatisfaction has scarcely occurred to them until the mythic Murray returns with his Murray fun and irritating ease with life. His reappearance makes them all remember how much fun they used to have and awakens in them old ambitions they thought were dead. And as this weary group struggles with identity, morality, and the like, London's pigeons, also somehow spurred on by Murray's return, are having an identity crisis all their own--suddenly conscious of moments and matters that were once unremarkable, just as they themselves were. The London Pigeon Wars - extraordinary, bizarre, moving and magical - is an assured novel of discontented stirrings, in both man and bird, that give way to wars within the self and without. Patrick Neate's third novel is superbly written, brilliant, witty, and uproarious, securing for him a spot among the best of contemporary fiction writers.
https://www.amazon.com/London-Pigeon-Wars-Novel/dp/0374192057/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+London+Pigeon+Wars&qid=1581936853&s=books&sr=1-1
2004
(Meet Tommy Akhtar, cricket aficionado, devoted son, some ...)
Meet Tommy Akhtar, cricket aficionado, devoted son, some time private investigator and some time idol to West London's thug-lites. It's multi-tasking, serious (Little Book of Tommy #38). He's just woken up with another hangover and combed a parting in the pelt on his tongue when his next case comes through the door. Exoticmelody is searching for her fellow hooker, sexyrussian.co.uk, last seen meeting a client in a Mayfair dive. It looks like a join the dots kind of job. But as the search for sexy Russian hots up, Tommy's case takes a turn for the sinister. He's drawn into a murder investigation and the dark side of both the establishment and those who plan to overthrow it. But Tommy reckons it's the opportunists you've got to watch out for. Neate brilliantly explores the underbelly of the cultural mix that makes up London - The City of Tiny Lights - and questions just what it really means to be British right now...
https://www.amazon.com/City-Tiny-Lights-Patrick-Neate/dp/0670912654/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=City+of+Tiny+Lights&qid=1581936990&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(Brazil is a conundrum; even as its culture enjoys an ever...)
Brazil is a conundrum; even as its culture enjoys an ever higher profile in the West, an undeclared, vicious and often ignored drug war is being fought on the streets of its cities' favelas (shanty towns). Culture is Our Weapon: AfroReggae in the Favelas of Rio is a unique and remarkable book. It tells the story of this war through the eyes of both the protagonists and those it affects, revealing terrifying complexities of life on the frontline of one of the most damaging civil conflicts in Latin America. At center stage of this groundbreaking book is the extraordinary work of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, a Rio-based NGO which seeks to divert - through music and an appreciation of black culture - favela residents from the path of poverty and violence. AfroReggae are a force for real social change; they are also a model for what is possible when an oppressed community decides to resist the twin onslaugh of violence and poverty. This book is co-authored by a prize-winning fiction and non-fiction writer.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1899365699/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i8
2006
(An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs an...)
An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts, this unique book takes readers to the frontlines of a battle raging over control of the nation's poorest areas. Culture Is Our Weapon tells the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, a Rio-based organization employing music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of the favelas, or shantytowns, to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods. This is an inspiring look at an artistic explosion and the best and worst of Brazilian society.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033SA4Y8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2010
journalist screenwriter author poet
Patrick Neate was born on October 27, 1970, in Putney, London, England, United Kingdom.
Patrick Neate was educated at St. Paul's School. He earned a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University. Neate also studied journalism at City, University of London.
Patrick Neate spent a year teaching at a small school in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, which made a lasting impression on him. Neate would later participate in a national conference on ethical travel in which he discussed being a wealthy westerner in an impoverished country, as a way of helping tourists and other young teachers appreciate and respect cultural and economic differences.
Upon returning from Africa, he took a journalism course at City, University of London, then set up a dot.com company, made some money, and left the business. Following this foray into the business world, Neate focused on writing about black musical forms such as jazz and hip-hop as a freelance journalist. Working as a part-time disc jockey, Neate also began writing fiction.
Neate published his first novel, Musungo Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko, in 2000. While his first novel received relatively little attention in the British press, with his second novel, Twelve Bar Blues (2001), Neate suddenly found himself the talk of the literary world. Later, he has penned The London Pigeon Wars (2004), Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet (2004), City of Tiny Lights (2005), etc.
Neate also wrote the screenplay for the film The Tesseract, adapted from the book by Alex Garland. His longform poem Babel was transformed into a physical theatre piece by acclaimed choreographers, Stan Won't Dance, in 2010.
He is a contributor to periodicals, including Washington Post, The Face, Tatler, Fabric Magazine, Quintessentially Magazine, Mixmag, Q, Guardian (London), Harper's Magazine, Sunday Tribune, Standard, Tatler, Time Out, Hospital Doctor, Times (London), Telegraph (London), Sky, and Marie-Claire.
(An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs an...)
2010(There are Tariq and Emma, Tom and Karen, Kwesi, Freya, an...)
2004(Brazil is a conundrum; even as its culture enjoys an ever...)
2006(Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet playe...)
2001(Meet Tommy Akhtar, cricket aficionado, devoted son, some ...)
2005(Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on t...)
2000Patrick Neate was raised as a Roman Catholic.