DURHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2000

 

JONATHAN TULLOCH

Jonathan Tulloch is 28 and teaches in Gateshead. He has won prizes for his short stories, and this is his first novel. The Season Ticket is being made into a film by Mark Herman, director of Brassed Off and Little Voice, and will feature a cameo performance by Alan Shearer. His second novel, The Bonny Lad, also set in the North East, will be published by Jonathan Cape in January 2001.

 

The Season Ticket

Sewell and Gerry live in Gateshead. Theirs seems the perfect partnership. Sewell is physically strong, Gerry is small yet crafty. Neither has attended school for a long time. Both are broke.

Sewell and Gerry have only one purpose in life. They each want a season ticket to see Newcastle United. And for that they need money. Lots of money.

The Season Ticket is the story of how they go about getting it. A story of friendship, aspirations and beauty in unexpected places, it’s very funny, very sad and utterly convincing.