karya pertama priest, the run dipublikasikan pada tahun 1966.
dia menjadi penulis penuh waktu pada 1968.salah satu novel mula-mula yang ditulis, the affirmation, mengangkat cerita tentang seseorang yang mengalami traumatik delusi dan pengalamannya mengarungi kepulauan dan berlabuh di sebuah pulau eksotis.
priest also dealt with delusional alternate realities in a dream of wessex, in which a group of experimenters for a british government project are brain-wired to a hypnosis machine and jointly participate in an imaginary but as-real-as-real future in a vacation island off the coast of a sovietized britain.
bsfa award kategori novel terbaik selama empat kali; 1974 untuk inverted world; tahun 1998 untuk the extremes; 2002 untuk the separation dan 2011 untuk novel the islanders.
james tait black memorial prize kategori fiksi untuk karya the prestige.
bsfa award atas kumpulan cerpennya pada tahun 1979 untuk karyanya palely loitering; dan dinominasikan dalam penghargaan hugo awards kategori best novel, best novella, best novelette, dan best non-fiction book the space machine memenangi penghargaan sf prize ditmar awards, tahun 1977.
esai sastra priest tahun 1979 berjudul the making of the lesbian horse (dipublikasikan sebagai novacon) mengantarkan dia meraih penghargaan inverted world.
tahun 1983 nama priest tercatat sebagai salah satu dari 20 novelis penrima penghargaan granta best of young british novelists.
tahun 1988 dia meraih kurd-lawitz-preis untuk karya the glamour.
priest tinggal di devon.
dia menikah dengan penulis lisa tuttle sampai tahun 1987 kemudian menikah dengan leigh kennedy sampai tahun 2011, yang memberikan anak kembar.
selanjutnya dia menempuh hidup bersama penulis nina allan.
london: faber and faber, 1970.
fugue for a darkening island.
london: faber and faber, 1972.
campbell nominee, 1973.
the inverted world.
london: faber and faber, 1974.
bsfa winner, 1974, hugo award nominee, 1975.
the space machine.
london: faber and faber, 1976.
a dream of wessex (us title the perfect lover).
london: faber and faber, 1977.
london: faber and faber, 1981.
bsfa nominee, 1981.
london: jonathan cape, 1984.
bsfa nominee, 1984.
sphere books, 1986.
(film tie-in novelisation as colin wedgelock)
mona lisa. sphere books, 1986.
(film tie-in novelisation as john luther novak)
the quiet woman.
london: bloomsbury, 1990.
london: simon and schuster, 1995.
bsfa nominee, 1995; world fantasy award winner, james tait black memorial prize winner, clarke awards nominee, 1996.
london: simon and schuster, 1998.
bsfa winner, 1998; clarke award nominee, 1999.
existenz. harper, 1999.
(film tie-in novelisation)
old earth books 2005bsfa winner, 2002; clark award winner, campbell award nominee, 2003.
bsfa winner, 2011; campbell award winner, 2012.
gollancz, 20 june 2013.
faber and faber, 1975.
an infinite summer.
faber and faber, 1979.
three stories reissued in the dream archipelago.
the dream archipelago.
ersatz wines  instructive short stories grimgrin studio, 2008.
anthology of early works.
2010 or 2011.
your book of film-making.
london: faber and faber, 1974.
the making of the lesbian horse.
novacon 9 for the birmingham science fiction group, 1979.
priest attended as the guest of honour.
the book on the edge of forever.
seattle: fantagraphics, 1993.
"christopher priest's top 10 slipstream books". 2003.
an essay for london's the guardian, listing ten seminal novels of the slipstream genre, including works by j. g.
ballard, angela carter, borges, steve erickson, and steven millhauser.
"foreword" to stephen e. andrews' and nick rennison's 100 must-read science fiction novels.
london: a&c black academic and professional/bloomsbury publishing, 2006.
the magic  the story of a film. hastings: grimgrin studio, 2008.
essay in cinema futura: essays on favourite science fiction movies, edited by mark morris.
ps publishing, 2010.
christopher priest at british council: literature
london calling interview with christopher priest
his story "the discharge" at sci fiction
1995 interview by david langford, includes brief summaries and comments by priest on most of his novels to date.
his guest of honour speech at the 2005 world science fiction convention