Philip Palmer

Philip Palmer
Philip Palmer in 2005
Born	(1960-06-07) 7 June 1960 Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom
Occupation	Author
Nationality	British
Genres	Science fiction
www.philippalmer.net

Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter.^[1] Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1979.^[2]

Writing career

His first novel was Debatable Space, published in January 2008 by Orbit Books in the United Kingdom and the USA. Philip Palmer describes himself as "...a glamorous hyphenate. Writer-writer-toolazytogetaproperjob-writer."^[1]

Works

Radio Plays

• Gin and Rum, about ghosts, BBC Radio 4 30 June 2000
• Fallen, BBC Radio 4 23 January 2001
• The Faerie Queene, a very free version of Spenser’s epic poem, BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial 30 September 2001 – 7 October 2001
• The King’s Coiner, about the world’s greatest detective, who (Palmer alleges) was also a murderer, BBC Radio 4 23 April 2002
• The Travels of Marco Polo, BBC Radio 4 18 February 2004
• Rubato, about music, BBC Radio 4 11 February 2005
• Blame, about industrial manslaughter, BBC Radio 4 12 August 2005
• Breaking Point, about interrogation and torture, BBC Radio 4 10 August 2007^[3]
• The Art Of Deception, BBC Radio 4 22–26 June 2009^[4]
• The Art Of Deception (series 2), BBC Radio 4 20–24 December 2010^[5]
• Bearing Witness, legal drama inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Hague BBC Radio 4 12 December 2012 ^[6]

Novels

• Debatable Space (2008)
• Red Claw (2009)
• Version 43 (2010)
• Hell Ship (2011)
• Artemis (2011)

References

External links

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