Christopher David Paling (1956 – 5 February 2024) was a British radio producer, artist, playwright and author of modern fiction.
[1] In the early 1990s he had a Thirty Minute Theatre play called Way Station produced on BBC Radio 4.
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.
[citation needed] Paling wrote a series of plays entitled Words and Music, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in the summer of 2013.
[2] In 2017 his book Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library was published.