Christopher David Paling (1956 – 5 February 2024) was a British radio producer, artist, playwright and author of modern fiction.
Biography
Born in 1956 in Derby, Paling studied social sciences at the University of Sussex. He started working as a studio manager for BBC radio in 1981. In 2017 his book Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library was published.
Paling was married with two children, and lived in Brighton.
Bibliography
- After the Raid (1995)
- 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. .