Stephen Gallagher, Esq

Career: writer and director; with: Documentaries Dept Yorkshire TV, Presentation Dept Granada TV 1975; freelance writer 1980-; Northern chair Writers' Guild of GB 1994-96; radio plays incl: The Last Rose of Summer 1977, Hunter's Moon 1978, The Babylon Run 1979, A Resistance to Pressure 1980, The Kingston File 1987, By The River, Fontainebleau 1988, The Horn 1989, Life Line 1992; TV work: Warriors' Gate (BBC) 1981, Terminus (BBC) 1984, Moving Targets (BBC) 1988, Chimera (Zenith/Anglia) 1991, Here Comes The Mirror Man (YTV) 1995, Oktober (adapted and directed for Carnival Films/LWT) 1998, The Kingdom of Bones (BBC Films) 2001, The Memory of Water (Carnival) 2004, Eleventh Hour (series creator and episodes, ITV) 2005, The Cup of Silence (Carnival) 2006, Life Line (Carnival/BBC) 2007, Eleventh Hour (format creator and episodes, CBS/Warner) 2008, Crusoe (series developer and lead writer, Power/NBC Universal) 2008, The Forgotten (co-exec prodr, ABC/Warner/Jerry Bruckheimer Television) 2009, Silent Witness: The Legacy (BBC) 2012; memb: Writers Guild of GB, Writers Guild of America (East), Crime Writers Assoc, Henry Irving Soc, Br Fantasy Soc

Books and Publications: novels incl: Chimera (1982), Follower (1984), Valley of Lights (1987), Oktober (1988), Down River (1989), Rain (1990), The Boat House (1991), Nightmare, With Angel (1992), Red, Red Robin (1995), White Bizango (2002), The Spirit Box (2005), The Painted Bride (2006), The Kingdom of Bones (2007), The Bedlam Detective (2012); non fiction incl Journeyman (2000); writings also incl short fiction and criticism collected in Out of his Mind (Br Fantasy Award 2004) and Plots and Misadventures (2007)