Philip Palmer

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Philip Palmer
Philip Palmer in 2005
Philip Palmer in 2005
Born (1960-06-07) 7 June 1960 (age 61)
Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom
OccupationAuthor
NationalityBritish
GenreScience fiction
Website
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 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[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b The Author | Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces
  2. ^ "In Print". Jesus College Newsletter. Jesus College, Oxford: 19. 2008.
  3. ^ BBC – Friday Play – Breaking Point
  4. ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Art of Deception
  5. ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Day of the Dead
  6. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p71wv
  7. ^ https://andrew-gower.co.uk/2020/10/17/speak-andrew-gower-on-bbc-radio-4/

External links[]

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