Jonathan Tulloch is the author of eight 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 won the Betty Trask Prize and The JB Priestley Award. He writes the Times Nature Notebook, and a nature column in The Tablet. His next novel, Larkinland, a fictionalisation of Philip Larkin’s poetic world, is out with Seren in July – being born is the only crime, all the rest is self-defence.