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He co-wrote a comedy drama series for BBC television in 1998, entitled The Last Salute, working with Simon Nye, creator of the Men Behaving Badly comedy series. On Ilkley Moor: The Story of an English Town (2001), is a memoir and history of the area where he grew up. Anthem, a moving and entertaining story of the horror of war and its consequences, was published in 2003. His latest novel is Sylvie and the Songman (2008) and is illustrated by Angela Barrett.


Tim Binding lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.

]]> male 3177556 0786706570 9780786706570 5 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3177556.Lying_With_the_Enemy 3.31 16 Lying with the Enemy, Tim Binding has written a novel that is part war story, part murder mystery, and wholly compelling. Set on Guernsey during the final years of World War II, the story traces the impact of German occupation in the British Channel Islands on both conquerors and conquered alike. Binding makes it clear that the Nazi presence on Guernsey was a fairly civilized affair from the get-go; aside from an abortive raid shortly after the Germans invaded in 1940, the British surrendered the Channel Islands to the enemy, leaving their residents to forge an uneasy accommodation with their new masters. By 1943, when Binding's novel begins, the Germans have been on Guernsey for three years and an inevitable degree of fraternization has become the norm. This is especially apparent in the complicated relationship between Major Lentsch, his island-born lover, Isobel van Dielen, and her former flame (and Guernsey's current chief constable) Ned Luscombe. When Isobel is murdered early on in the proceedings, it is up to Ned to solve the crime--a task that throws him into a reluctant liaison with his rival. As he and Lentsch join forces, their investigation leads them into the back-street world of twisted passions and unholy alliances among islanders and occupiers alike. Meanwhile, the professional association between a world-weary cop and a Nazi-hating German officer turns gradually into a fast though unlikely friendship. Lying with the Enemy is both fine historical fiction and a remarkably acute study of the troubling choices essentially good people make when trapped in morally ambiguous circumstances. --Sheila Bright]]> 167394 3.43 61 18 1999 6091035 0385751575 9780385751575 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6091035.Sylvie_and_the_Songman 3.23 13 A compelling story full of magic and music.

Sylvie Bartram lives alone with Mr. Jackson the dog and her eccentric composer father, who invents strange and wonderful musical instruments. One day she returns from school to find a message left in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror: her father has been kidnapped. Later that night, the house is visited by a terrifying apparition—a half-man, half-creature who is searching for something and will not rest until he has found it. . . .

Sylvie uncovers an underground world of magic and evil, and with help from her friends, she must hold off a power that threatens the lives of all beings in the world. The Songman is at large, and is determined to steal music and use it for his own evil ends. . . .]]> 167394 3.43 61 18 2009 1131863 033042758X 9780330427586 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181246138m/1131863.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181246138s/1131863.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1131863.Anthem 3.43 7 167394 3.43 61 18 2003 288805 0330345656 9780330345651 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173445915m/288805.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173445915s/288805.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288805.A_Perfect_Execution 3.60 5 In the Kingdom of Air comes A Perfect Execution, the tale of Jeremiah Bembo, England's greatest hangman. Propelled by a murder-mystery plot, the book is more the tale of the discovery of the hangman's true human identity than it is just a conventional search for the true identity of a murderer. Rich with metaphor--Bembo comes from a family of puppeteers and Binding doesn't shy away from references to manipulating the strings of destiny--and tautly executed, A Perfect Execution does an admirable job of getting inside the head of an executioner and rendering him both believable and believably human.]]> 167394 3.43 61 18 1996 2858300 0099302578 9780099302575 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2858300.In_The_Kingdom_of_Air 5.00 1 167394 3.43 61 18 1993 727767 0330487485 9780330487481 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177709354m/727767.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177709354s/727767.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/727767.Man_Overboard 3.00 1 167394 3.43 61 18 2005 2805802 0330369962 9780330369961 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2805802.On_Ilkley_Moor_The_Story_of_an_English_Town 2.00 1 167394 3.43 61 18 2001 7004468 0753106469 9780753106464 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255875414m/7004468.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255875414s/7004468.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7004468-island-madness 0.0 0 167394 3.43 61 18 34489 4.21 47 4 2000 5680186 3936384363 9783936384369 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5680186.Henry_Seefahrer 0.0 0 167394 3.43 61 18 2005 5680184 386648089X 9783866480896 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5680184.Cliffhanger 0.0 0 167394 3.43 61 18 2008