Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter. Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1978.
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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."
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
The Art Of Deception, 22–26 June 2009
The Art of Deception, Day of the Dead (series 2), 20–24 December 2010
Bearing Witness, legal drama inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, 12 December 2012
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
Novels
Debatable Space (2008)
Red Claw (2009)
Version 43 (2010)
Hell Ship (2011)
Artemis (2011)
Hell on Earth (2017)