Tom Cox
Tom Cox's books include Villager, 1983, the Sunday Times top ten bestseller The Good, The Bad And The Furry, the Wainwright Prize-longlisted 21st-Century Yokel & Help The Witch, which won a Shirley Jackson Horror Writing award. He lives in Devon.
In The Village Churchyard Where The Lovers Are Buried
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An In-Depth History Of The Railways
This is not actually an in-depth history of the railways. As you might have noticed if you spend any time on my website, I have a self-sabotaging habit of often giving my pieces thoroughly unclickbait titles which often only abstractly, at most, describe what they contain (I think
Houses In Motion
The 20 Best Interdimensional Portals I Have Photographed On Walks In The British Countryside
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A Brief, Unsparingly Honest Guide To The Real British Countryside From Someone Who Knows
My Ex-Husband's Landlady
I've taken the paywall off this story, just for the next 24 hours, in a devious attempt to lure a few of you into a paying subscription for future writing. I hope you enjoy it. Subscribe now My ex-husband’s landlady is 77 years old, five feet
Black Dog
My cat Roscoe - who some of you might have been introduced to recently via her more vapid alter ego - turns 14 this month. She's a healthy cat, young for her age, which makes my mind boggle a bit as it hits me that precisely ten years ago I
Old Litkinov
Old Litkinov owned the bookshop and, back when I was a poor student, I would sometimes sell books to him that I had stolen from delivery trucks, supermarkets and the bedrooms of people who’d verbally undermined me. Ever-perceptive, Litkinov surely knew what was going on and when I
An Exclusive Look Inside My Writing Routine
I normally wake just before 3am, get immediately into my tracksuit and go for a run around the bathroom, but not for long, since writing time is of the utmost value to me and I’m at the height of my intellectual powers early in the morning. If I’m