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'''Philip Palmer''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[novelist]] and [[screenwriter]].<ref name="author">[http://www.philippalmer.net/the-author/ The Author | Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He studied English at [[Jesus College, Oxford]], [[matriculation|matriculating]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Jesus College Newsletter|pages=19|title=In Print| publisher=[[Jesus College, Oxford]]|year=2008}}</ref>
'''Philip Palmer''' is a British [[novelist]] and [[screenwriter]].<ref name="author">[http://www.philippalmer.net/the-author/ The Author | Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Originally from [[Port Talbot]], Wales, he studied English at [[Jesus College, Oxford]], [[matriculation|matriculating]] in 1978.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Jesus College Newsletter|pages=19|title=In Print| publisher=[[Jesus College, Oxford]]|year=2008}}</ref>


==Writing career==
==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."<ref name="author"/>
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."<ref name="author"/>


==Works==
==Works==

=== Radio Plays ===
For [[BBC Radio 4]]:
* ''[[Toby Swift#Gin and Rum|Gin and Rum]]'', about ghosts, 30 June 2000
* ''[[Toby Swift#Fallen|Fallen]]'', 23 January 2001
* ''[[Toby Swift#The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]]'', a very free version of [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]]’s epic poem, in the outlet's [[Classic Serial]], 30 September 2001 – 7 October 2001
* ''[[Toby Swift#The King's Coiner|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
* ''[[Toby Swift#The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels of Marco Polo]]'', 18 February 2004
* ''Rubato'', about music, 11 February 2005
* ''[[Toby Swift#Blame|Blame]]'', about industrial manslaughter, 12 August 2005
* ''[[Toby Swift#Breaking Point|Breaking Point]]'', Day of the Dead, 10 August 2007<ref>
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vlvp BBC – Friday Play – ''Breaking Point'']</ref>
* ''[[Toby Swift#The Art of Deception|The Art Of Deception]]'', 22&ndash;26 June 2009<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l3bgx BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – ''The Art of Deception'']</ref>
* ''[[Toby Swift#The Art of Deception (Series 2)|The Art of Deception, Day of the Dead]]'' (series 2), 20&ndash;24 December 2010<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wp4x6 BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – ''Day of the Dead'']</ref>
* ''Bearing Witness'', legal drama inside the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] in [[The Hague]], 12 December 2012 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p71wv|title = BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Bearing Witness}}</ref>
*''Speak'', amid dystopian "Globish", a 1500-word version of English, a dangerous romance makes a case for how words &ndash; and even more, their paucity &ndash; can control, confine, leach emotion and trap minds, 18 June 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://andrew-gower.co.uk/2020/10/17/speak-andrew-gower-on-bbc-radio-4/|title=Speak: Andrew Gower on BBC Radio 4|date=17 October 2020}}</ref>

=== Novels ===
=== Novels ===
* ''[[Debatable Space]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Debatable Space]]'' (2008)
* ''Red Claw''
* ''[[Red Claw (novel)|Red Claw]]'' (2009)
* ''Version 43'' (2010)
* ''[[Ketos (novel)|Ketos]]'' (forthcoming). Palmer announced on his site that Ketos "...is not going to ready for a 2008 slot as originally planned"<ref name="29 Feb">[http://www.philippalmer.net/2008/02/29/on-eating-elephants-and-ketos/ On Eating Elephants, and Ketos | Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> but that he was "in good company" as both Richard Morgan and Neil Gaiman had missed several deadlines for their novels.<ref name="29 Feb"/>
* ''Hell Ship'' (2011)
* ''Artemis'' (2011)
* ''Hell on Earth'' (2017)


==References==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.philippalmer.net/ Official Philip Palmer Web site]
* [http://www.philippalmer.net/ Official Philip Palmer Web site]
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Latest revision as of 19:43, 31 October 2023

For other people named Philip Palmer, see Philip Palmer (disambiguation).
Philip Palmer
Philip Palmer in 2005
Philip Palmer in 2005
Born (1960-06-07) 7 June 1960 (age 63)
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 1978.[2]

Writing career[edit]

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[edit]

Radio Plays[edit]

For BBC Radio 4:

Novels[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Bearing Witness".
  7. ^ "Speak: Andrew Gower on BBC Radio 4". 17 October 2020.

External links[edit]

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