Author of seven previous novels, including The Season Ticket, Give Us This Day and Mr McCool, Jonathan Tulloch's work has been filmed, staged, Radio 4 serialised and translated into five languages. He has won the Betty Trask Prize and The JB Priestley Award. He contributes to the 'Nature Notebook' in The Times, and writes a weekly column in the second oldest weekly magazine in the English language. Founder of The Sheltering Tree, a Middlesbrough writing group for writers recovering from addiction, he also plays in the ceilidh band, Herd on the Hill.
