Jonathan Tulloch was born and bred in Cumbria. He was educated by Augustinian friars. He has written three previous novels, The Season Ticket, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and filmed as Purely Belter, The Bonny Lad and The Lottery. He featured on the TLS list of the twenty most promising young writers, and recently won the J.B. Priestly Award. His work has been translated into five languages. He is a regular contributor to The Tablet, the leading international Roman Catholic weekly.
A beautifully written and compelling story of the search for truth and integrity -- Bernard O'Donoghue Half-tragic, half-hopeful, always unsentimental, Give Us This Day is a wholly absorbing novel -- D.J. Taylor * Guardian * The blighted northern English landscape is rendered lovingly... A skillfully paced, readable novel * Times Literary Supplement * Jonathan Tulloch confirms his promise with Give Us This Day, a beautifully nuanced study of a Teesside chaplain * Daily Express * Tulloch masterfully fashions a foreboding gothic landscape out of this godforsaken colony of the damned... An immensely resonant and powerful story -- Laurence Phelan * Independent on Sunday *