'This humane, sweepingly ambitious tale is as close to the Great British Novel as you can get' - "Esquire". 'Engrossing ...a complicated but satisfying plot ...this novel is rich, moving and real' - "Observer". 'Binding sees England as at once a fiction and a necessity, a sustaining ideal and a destroying angel, an excuse and a means of redemption. The effect is by turns eerie, exhilarating, grotesque, revolting and deeply moving ...[he] has set out to show what fiction can do when it stops worrying at its own importance' - "Independent on Sunday". Praise for 'Man Overboard': 'a consistently entertaining and resourceful novel' - "Guardian". Praise for 'A Perfect Execution': 'All human life is there, in a mesmerizing world of its own' - "Guardian". 'A brilliant, terrifying and haunting novel ...it has an almost Dickensian moral clarity ...a wholly impressive work. It combines all the packed action of a thriller with a vision remarkable for its breadth and for its humanity' - "Evening Standard". 'A compelling mixture of murder-mystery, Greek tragedy and love story ...Set in the post-war period of travelling salesmen and Ruth Ellis look-alikes it asks the enormous, eternal questions in language that is both lyrical and barbaric' - "Sunday Telegraph". Praise for 'Island Madness': 'The most stimulating and also the most exciting novel I read this year ...Part thriller, part love story, and wholly engrossing' - Antonia Fraser, "Sunday Telegraph". 'Rewarding subtlety and insight into the best and worst of human nature' - Jane Shilling, "The Times".

Tim Binding was born in Germany in 1947. He is the author of In the Kingdom of Air, A Perfect Execution, Island Madness, On Ilkley Moor, Anthem and Man Overboard. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.