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]

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]

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]

• Debatable Space (2008)
• Red Claw (2009)
• Version 43 (2010)
• Hell Ship (2011)
• Artemis (2011)
• Hell on Earth (2017)

• Official Philip Palmer Web site
• Philip Palmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Philip Palmer at IMDb