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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.
The Black Tree
Writing
A Message To Subscribers From Me And Jim
If you read this website regularly you probably know about my Substack page by now, where I am also posting all of my new writing, and which I am increasingly reliant on, especially having deleted my Twitter account. A few of you still subscribe to www.tom-cox.com via Paypal
Writing
VERY SHORT STORIES
THE THREESOME Jenny and Torsten lived in what anyone who knew them whose opinion they attached any value to agreed was a fabulous little house, backing onto a cliff: not what was generally perceived to be one of the most desirable cliffs in the area, but a real find, nevertheless.
Writing
A Few Extracts From My Notebook
* Jim is a cat our male cat Charles brought over to our house in early December last year. It’s mid-April now and Jim’s still here so I guess it means he’s officially ours - especially since the lady whose barn he used to live in seems fine
Old Photos
* I sometimes forget that in a pre-smartphone age most people didn’t take a lot of photos of their everyday life. My family did, and I am thankful for that, especially as I get further into the researching and writing of my new novel, which is set in the early
THE MYSTIC HEDGE: A PHOTO ESSAY ABOUT ANOTHER QUITE UNSETTLING CORNISH WALK
Reviews Of Some Crisps I Have Eaten Recently
ART AND MORE
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A Few Extracts From My Notebook
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Living In A Plague Village In The 21st Century
Writing
Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Deconstructed
One of the many ways that the internet is cruel and annoying in a “pissing down your back and telling you it’s raining” way is that, at the very same time as ruining people’s attention spans and preventing them from concentrating properly on books, it is constantly reminding