Chris Paling (born 1956) is a British author of modern fiction.

Biography

Born in 1956 in Derby, Paling studied

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at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

. He started working as a studio manager for BBC radio in 1981. In the early 1990s he had a Thirty Minute Theatre play called ''Way Station'' produced on

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

. He wrote more radio plays and later began writing novels. ''After the Raid'' (1995), a wartime study of a shattered mind, was closely followed by ''Deserters'' (1996) and ''Morning All Day'' (1997). Paling feared ''The Silent Sentry'' (1999), about a radio producer who cracks up, might be "the longest resignation letter in history", but he remains a Radio 4 producer to this day. ''Newton's Swing'' (2000) was a subtle Stateside thriller; ''The Repentant Morning'' (2003) is set in London and Spain in 1936; ''A Town by the Sea'' (2005) is a departure from his previous style, leading the reader through a strange landscape of unfamiliar people and places. ''Minding'' (2007), nominated for the Mind book of the year, was described as "a delicately and intimately drawn portrait". Paling wrote a series of plays entitled ''Words and Music'', broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in the summer of 2013. In 2017 his book ''Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library'' was published. Paling is married with two children, and lives in

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Bibliography

* ''After the Raid'' (1995) * ''Deserters'' (1996) * ''Morning All Day'' (1997) * ''The Silent Sentry'' (1999) * ''Newton's Swing'' (2000) * ''The Repentant Morning'' (2003) * ''A Town by the Sea'' (2005) * ''Minding'' (2007) * ''Nimrod's Shadow'' (2010) * ''Reading allowed: True stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library'' (2017) * ''A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist''. Little, Brown Book, 2021. .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paling, Chris 1956 births Living people 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists English radio writers Alumni of the University of Sussex English male novelists 20th-century English male writers 21st-century English male writers