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. ‘Tulloch has written the Oliver Twist of our Times,’ The Times. ‘Treasure him, there’s no saying what he’ll do next,’ Stan Barstow. ‘Rarely have I heard anyone else talk so enthrallingly about literature,’ Open Book Radio 4 ‘Extremely readable, even compelling.’ Sean O’Brien, TLS