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In the Kingdom of Air
A turbulent story of childhood, love and meteorological forces.
Island Madness
'Beautifully written ... a marvellous read, one of my ten best of the year' Brian Case, Time Out
On Ilkley Moor
An imaginative history of Binding's childhood home - Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire: a series of explorations, partly factual, partly intuitive and partly personal. Binding tells a story about Victorian optimism, industry and commerce, but, above all, of England and the lost dreams of the 1950s.
A Perfect Execution
Jeremiah Bembo lives quietly growing fruit and vegetables which his wife Judith sells at the local market. In secret, under the name of Solomon Straw, he travels the country as England's executioner, carrying out the hangings required by law. In a post-war provincial Britain seamed with commonplace corruption, he strives to maintain a balance of compassion and justice, until a murder is committed which brings his two lives into an inevitable collision.
The Champion
Charles Pemberton has lived all his life in the same, small town. It's been a good life, a safe life. Then, sauntering boldly into this privileged world comes Clark "Large" Rossiter, a working-class lad with an easy charm and insatiable ambition. Large is out to upset the established order of things. He wants it all: money, status - even revenge. But Charles and the old guard aren't ready to lie down just yet, and this probing portrait of the years between Thatcher and Blair catches an England unleashed from restraint, at war with itself and heading for a fall. This ferociously funny novel, firmly in the tradition of Money, The Line of Beauty, or, most recently, Linda Grant's They Had it So Good, is great English satire at its savage best.
Man Overboard
Lionel 'Buster' Crabb became renowned during the Second World War for his amazing feats of underwater daring. Then, in 1956, during a visit to Britain by Nikita Khrushchev, Commander Crabb disappeared. Talking about this mystery, this is a story of a man who has made deep personal sacrifices for the sake of higher ideals.
Sylvie and the Songman
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 . . . An exhilarating and magical story that will appeal to all readers aged 9-14.
Cliffhanger
Al Greenwood has decided to kill his wife, and he's planned the perfect murder. But things don't turn out quite the way he hoped, and Al finds himself committing more crimes to cover his tracks.
How The West Was Lost
How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies. It is these decisions that, along the way, have resulted in an economic and geo-political see-saw, which is now poised to tip in favour of the emerging world. By forging closer ties with the emerging economies, rethinking trade barriers, overhauling their tax systems to encourage savings rather than ravenous consumption, and specifically addressing the three essential ingredients for growth (capital, labour and technology) it might yet still be possible for the West to firmly get back in the race.
