Mike Gayle (born October 1970) is an English journalist and novelist.

[3] Gayle edited a music fanzine and joined a Birmingham listings magazine before moving to London and beginning a postgraduate diploma in journalism.

Before having his first novel published, he was a features editor and later an agony aunt for Just Seventeen and Bliss.

[4] Alongside Tony Parsons and Tim Lott, he has also been associated with a "new wave of fictions about inadequate young British masculinities".

[5] Gayle is friends with Danny Wallace, who has dubbed Mike his Minister of Home Affairs in the Kingdom of Lovely.