Philip Palmer | |
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 Philip Palmer in 2005 | |
| Born | 7 June 1960 Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Website | |
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Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter.[1] Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1978.[2]
Writing career
His first novel was Debatable Space, published in January 2008 by Orbit Books in the United Kingdom and the United States. Philip Palmer describes himself as "...a glamorous hyphenate. Writer-writer-toolazytogetaproperjob-writer."[1]
Works
Radio Plays
For BBC Radio 4:
- Gin and Rum, about ghosts, 30 June 2000
- Fallen, 23 January 2001
- The Faerie Queene, a very free version of Spenser’s epic poem, in the outlet's Classic Serial, 30 September 2001 – 7 October 2001
- The King’s Coiner, about the older-age anti-counterfeiter Isaac Newton, amid the cut-throat nature of serious fraud at the time, 23 April 2002
- The Travels of Marco Polo, 18 February 2004
- Rubato, about music, 11 February 2005
- Blame, about industrial manslaughter, 12 August 2005
- Breaking Point, Day of the Dead, 10 August 2007[3]
- The Art Of Deception, 22–26 June 2009[4]
- The Art of Deception, Day of the Dead (series 2), 20–24 December 2010[5]
- Bearing Witness, legal drama inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, 12 December 2012 [6]
- Speak, amid dystopian "Globish", a 1500-word version of English, a dangerous romance makes a case for how words – and even more, their paucity – can control, confine, leach emotion and trap minds, 18 June 2018[7]
Novels
- Debatable Space (2008)
- Red Claw (2009)
- Version 43 (2010)
- Hell Ship (2011)
- Artemis (2011)
- Hell on Earth (2017)
References
- ↑ "In Print". Jesus College Newsletter. Jesus College, Oxford: 19. 2008.
- ↑ BBC – Friday Play – Breaking Point
- ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Art of Deception
- ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Day of the Dead
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Bearing Witness".
- ↑ "Speak: Andrew Gower on BBC Radio 4". 17 October 2020.
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