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Article: PATRICK NEATE
The Independent - London;  July 10, 2009 ;     489 words ... ... but remains totally unaffected - an extremely good, intelligent human being. I always wanted to be a bit like him. Patrick Neate's 'Jerusalem' is published by Jonathan Cape. Interview by Boyd Tonkin; picture: Adrian Sherratt/Rex

Article: A Londoner's Diary; Writer Patrick Neate on the joy ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  May 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... staring at you!' I turned round to follow her line of sight before realising she meant me. I almost said, 'Hold on. I'm that bloke from the telly.' I didn't. The London Pigeon Wars by Patrick Neate (Viking, pound sterling12.99)

Article: The bird is a geez The London Pigeon Wars by Patrick ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 25, 2003 ;     550 words ... ... and, oops, you're suddenly confronted by the Guardian's Women's Page. What is more, in The London Pigeon Wars, Patrick Neate's follow- up novel to Twelve Bar Blues, the pages in the other typeface are narrated by a pigeon. This somebirdy, to ...

Article: Where You're At: Notes From The Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet by ...
The Independent Weekly;  November 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Author Patrick Neate's pursuit of the true meaning of hip hop could have been inspired by a significantly introspective and luminous bong hit. If ...

Article: Books: Paperbacks: How do you translate bling bling into ...
The Independent on Sunday;  June 1, 2003 ;     647 words ...Rightly taking hip hop's global domination of popular culture as a given, novelist Patrick Neate sets out to understand the ways in which it's been adopted and adapted in five cities: New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Cape ...

Article: Books: A verbal magpie attracted by slang's sheen and sparkle ...
The Independent on Sunday;  May 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Like his previous fiction, Patrick Neate's third novel contains a witchdoctor of sorts. This time he exists on the story's margins as a down-and-out on the All ...

Article: Cloud cuckoo land ; Glittering malls stand beside grim poverty; ...
The Independent on Sunday;  December 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ...I first went on a "township tour" in 1990. I was 19 years old and on holiday from Zimbabwe, where I was then working. Nelson Mandela had been released from Robben Island a couple of months previously and, in South Africa, it seemed like the beginning of the end for apartheid. In the UK, meanwhile,