His Kate the Good Neighbour won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Film and TV Festival in 1980, while Minor Complications, based on a real case of medical negligence, gained him the Royal Television Society's Writer's Award in 1981.
[citation needed] TV productions include Fallen Angel (ITV 2007), A Good Murder (BBC1 2006) and the BAFTA nominated[3] adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith (BBC1 2005).
[citation needed] Ransley has also focussed on historical fiction with television dramas Bread or Blood (1981) and Seaforth (1994).
He subsequently wrote the "Tom Neave" trilogy of novels based around the English civil war [4][5] (published between 2012 and 2015).
[6] AvMA is a UK charity for patient safety and justice, providing free independent advice and support to people affected by medical accidents.