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Holiday Reading: 1Q84
My summer holiday this year was in Mallorca – two nights in Palma, then a week on the north eastern coast at a lovely resort called Puerto Pollensa. One…
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Meet Fillide
Posted on April 18, 2017 | No CommentsMeet Fillide Melandroni – courtesan and artist’s model, and now an RDC (Resurrected Detective Constable) in the Metropolitan Police Murder Squad Number Five… -
Hell on Earth: Coming Even Sooner
Posted on March 17, 2017 | No CommentsHELL ON EARTH, my new novel, is coming soon. Expect crime. Action. Demons. And warlocks. HOE is set in a near future London where Hell has come to Earth. Murder... -
Keeping the Wolf Out: Series 2
Posted on November 23, 2016 | 43 CommentsThanks again Aunt Beeb…she’s now commissioned me to write another 3 episodes of KEEPING THE WOLF OUT. A Cold War thriller with lots of goulash. Leo Bill is cool and... -
Red and Blue – the first six episodes
Posted on November 21, 2016 | 10 CommentsThanks Auntie Beeb…for repeating the entire first two series of RED AND BLUE, my wargame/state of the planet drama series which I’ve been writing over the last four or five... -
Cold War Crime
Posted on July 11, 2016 | 2 CommentsKEEPING THE WOLF OUT is my new radio drama series..two episodes about a Hungarian detective on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s… Leo Bill... -
Red and Blue Two
Posted on August 17, 2013 | 13 CommentsBradley Shoreham returns!!!! ACOUSTIC: THE CYBER SUITE IN PEMBERLEY FINANCE A ROOM FULL OF ‘TECHIES’ HARD AT WORK; TYPING ON COMPUTERS. CHIEF GEEK TOBY DRISCOLL IS IN CHARGE. BRADLEY:... -
March to Time
Posted on August 17, 2013 | No CommentsThis is the moment to March to Time… Check out Tony Ballantyne’s mission to save us from the bankers… -
Space Fiction
Posted on February 15, 2013 | 1 CommentThis Sunday I’ll be travelling to Leicester to take part in the 2 week long Space Fiction event at the National Space Centre. I’ll be giving a talk & reading... -
Fantasy Con 2012
Posted on September 28, 2012 | 2 CommentsOff to Fantasy Con today! For more details, here’s the website. I’ll be arriving this evening in time for the mass signing. Then on two panels on Saturday – one... -
Radio Bookcase
Posted on September 6, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the best kept secrets in the world of BBC Radio is the site called Audiogo. It’s where they sell audio books; and then some smart cookie had the... -
The Bloody Red Baron
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsNB: QUITE SOME TIME AGO I WROTE THIS BLOG ABOUT THE WONDERFUL NOVEL BY KIM NEWMAN, THE BLOODY RED BARON, WHICH AT THAT TIME WAS OUT OF PRINT. IT’S NOW... -
Resurrection Engines
Posted on May 5, 2012 | 2 CommentsI absolutely love this cover! It’s an anthology of steampunk stories edited by Scott Harrison, and I’m delighted to be part of it. For an account of the book and... -
Red and Blued…
Posted on May 5, 2012 | 1 CommentSeries 1 of Red and Blue has been and gone…I’m thrilled with the response. And the consensus seems to be that Tim Woodward (above) stole the show as former... -
TX: Hearts and Minds
Posted on April 11, 2012 | 2 CommentsToday is the broadcast date for Episode 1 of my new radio drama series RED AND BLUE. This is a fast-talking drama about the world of military wargames... -
SFF Song of the Week: Jaine Fenn
Posted on April 11, 2012 | 2 CommentsOne of the busy-bee panellists at Eastercon last was Jaine Fenn, a delightful and greatly talented SF writer. I met Jaine some time back when we shared a panel at... -
Best and worst of genres
Posted on April 10, 2012 | 2 CommentsI had a delightful time at Eastercon, zipping in for one day only before embarking upon a rare family holiday in Dorset… In my few hours there I met... -
Philip Palmer, Renaissance Man? No way!
Posted on March 26, 2012 | 3 CommentsFor the last few weeks I’ve been doing an interview for the Irish blogger and writer Bob Neilson, who does a lot of stuff for the Irish online mag Albedo... -
More about Red and Blue
Posted on March 1, 2012 | 1 CommentI met the Woman in Black yesterday! That’s Liz White, the actress who plays the title role in what is apparently the most successful British horror film ever. She plays... -
Future War
Posted on February 21, 2012 | 2 CommentsI’ve spent the last few months immersed in stories of war. Some of them are well known wars – I read a long account of the SAS in the... -
The Art of Deception: AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE
Posted on January 9, 2012 | No CommentsSeries 2 of The Art of Deception, Philip Palmer’s 5 part drama about art forger extraordinaire Daniel Ballantyne, is available for download here.