Order Patrick’s books and find out more at HarperCollins’ Bookarmy website:

http://www.bookarmy.com/
It keeps cropping up in his novels. Find out about the real life version of the Trenellion Music Festival: www.endellionfestivals.org.uk

Great Atlantic galleries
A chance to browse through the works of some stars of today’s Cornish art scene, including Alastair Lindsay, whose paintings of Penzance you may admire in the forthcoming feature on Notes from an Exhibition... www.greatatlantic.co.uk/lindsay/index.html

...and June Hicks, who just happens to be Patrick’s mother-in-law! www.trevescanstudio.com
Hart Gallery
Two other Cornwall-based artists. As a friend of Patrick’s, Michael Sheppard was a huge help in guiding the painterly passages of the novel. His work was a major inspiration for the larger paintings Rachel produces in the novel:
www.hartgallery.co.uk
Michael’s other half, the potter, Sutton Taylor, is no less dauntingly talented: www.hartgallery.co.uk
Tate St Ives
www.tate.org.uk/stives
Penlee House
If you’re visiting West Cornwall and prefer more traditional paintings to those you’re likely to find in the local galleries now, this lovely little museum tucked away in a subtropical park in Penzance features regular shows of work by the painters of the Newlyn School as well as housing a permanent exhibition on Cornwall’s human and natural histories: www.penleehouse.org.uk
South West Tourism
If Patrick’s books have inspired you to plan a trip to the scenery and towns where so many of them are set, this site, focussing on the grown-up pleasures Devon and Cornwall now offers those who have passed beyond the bucket-and-spade stage, is a good place to start your research: www.indulgesouthwest.co.uk
Armistead Maupin’s website
www.armisteadmaupin.com

Other authors’ websites:
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
www.nelincs.gov.uk
wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk
Abebooks - the dangerously addictive second-hand rival to Amazon
www.abebooks.co.uk
More online books
www.bartleby.com
Dictionaries
www.yourdictionary.com
Gramofile – great search/buy site for classical recordings
www.gramophone.co.uk