Give Us This Day

'This is Graham Greene territory; part love story, part thriller - a moving account of a man's battle for his own soul' - The Times

Tulloch masterfully fashions a foreboding gothic landscape out of this godforsaken colony of the damned... An immensely resonant and powerful story

Jonathan Tulloch confirms his promise with Give Us This Day, a beautifully nuanced study of a Teesside chaplain

The blighted northern English landscape is rendered lovingly... A skillfully paced, readable novel

Half-tragic, half-hopeful, always unsentimental, Give Us This Day is a wholly absorbing novel

A beautifully written and compelling story of the search for truth and integrity

A beautifully nuanced study of a dedicated, decent man who discovers that the simplistic pieties of his training fail to cover the moral complexities of the world in which he lives

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.

Tom Carey is a priest in crisis. God's good world has curdled and the Church is beset by scandal. Increasingly, he is haunted by the face of a woman he once secretly loved. 
 
Abandoning his comfortable parish he buries himself in the post of Port Chaplain on a busy river, but soon finds himself caught up in the murky world of international people-smuggling. The alluring but sinister Captain Cargo and his beleaguered Filipino crew seem intent on forcing him into a radical expression of his priesthood, but a chance encounter with the woman he has not seen for thirty years throws his vocation and faith into question.

The Bonny Lad

'Like an English Roddy Doyle, Tulloch's dialect and characterisation of a community down but not out is at once hilarious and heartbreaking' - GQ

The Bonny Lad celebrates the redemptive power of love with humour and poignancy, without flinching form counting its cost... A warm and moving tale

Sonny Gee is an Oliver Twist for our times

[The] friendship that develops between the unemotional retired miner and the damaged youngster is simply touching, rather like the whole of this gentle novel

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 Lottery and Give Us This Day. He featured on the Times Literary Supplement 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.

Sonny Gee is six years old when his mother abandons him. He is taken in by his grandfather, Joe, a man he's never met, a former miner, grim and taciturn. Forced together and immediately locked in conflict, an inarticulate tenderness develops between the old man and the boy. For both of them, however, this new relationship is increasingly threatened by forces from the past. 
 
By winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the J B Priestly Award.

Jonathan Tulloch

A novelist of great distinction, there's no knowing what he yet might do, treasure him

Bold...the protagonists and their milieux are brought vibrantly to life. This is arguably Tulloch's most ambitious novel to date.

Spring 2008. The art world is awash with money, and Piers Guest is getting his share. Celebrated art mogul, critic, impresario and 'adviser' with a client list ranging from the wealthiest of individual collectors to an international merchant bank, he is a bona fide member of the glitterati. Graced with his own beauty, he gallivants through London's galleries, cafés and hotels, playground for multi-millionaire artists, financiers and infidelity, while still enjoying a Chelsea mansion with his wife and daughter. Until a mysterious meeting about a newly discovered masterpiece begins a hunt that will lead him onto an altogether different terrain... 
 
1933. Under the shadow of the newly elected Nazi party, Helga and Ernst Mann bring a disabled child into the world. While her husband Ernst, a folklorist, drifts near the baleful influence of the Third Reich, Helga will stop at nothing to keep her child safe. 
 
1890. Vincent Van Gogh is living out his last few weeks in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise. Tormented by illness and regret, his only companions are the melancholy Dr Gachet, the ghosts of his own past, and the group of disturbed but engaging patients being treated by Gachet. Taking up his brush, he paints the picture that will draw so many disparate lives together. 
 
From the troubled genius of Vincent Van Gogh to the wartime birch forests of Ukraine, from the scintillating labyrinths of contemporary art and commerce to a mother's desperate journey across Germany into the teeth of the Red Army, Jonathan Tulloch's novel examines madness and creativity, love and destruction, the painting of a picture and the lust to own.

Jonathan Tulloch

Praise for A Winding Road

A novelist of great distinction, there's no knowing what he yet might do, treasure him

Bold...the protagonists and their milieux are brought vibrantly to life. This is arguably Tulloch's most ambitious novel to date.

Books by Jonathan Tulloch

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