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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.
Writing
1983
My big news today is that I’m writing and crowdfunding a new novel. It’s very different to my last one, but that tends to be what happens with my books, since I’m restless like that: I have had a habit, both in my recent writing and my
Newsletter
1983!
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The Story Of A Long And Difficult But Also Surprisingly Effortless Book
Hello! It’s only just over a month now until the paperback publication of my debut novel, Villager: a psychedelic story of swirling time, earth magic, river spirits, wise stones, lost music and opinionated hills. It’s my thirteenth book, the one I truly feel is my best, the one
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SOME RECOMMENDED WALKS
A HEALTHY YOMP FROM CUCKLAND VIPERS FARM TO MOGFORD SHALLOWS AND BEYOND (11.7 miles) It is a day for walking on the margins, a time to avoid the centre of everything scrupulously. Your route takes you down a sunken path where the assorted rubble underfoot feels as untrustworthy as
The Story Of A Long And Difficult But Also Surprisingly Effortless Book
Six Tiny Stories About Sheep
Some Maps and Charts By Me
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A Few Of The Many Houses I Won't Be Purchasing This Year
1. Cornwall Sometimes I drive to see empty houses I can’t afford. The more dilapidated the better is the general rule. It’s a combined symptom of my obsession with abandoned buildings being reclaimed by nature and the arguably contradictory materialist part of my personality which is in awe
A Few Of The Many Houses I Won't Be Purchasing This Year
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Photos Of Some Unreconstructed Rural Men I Have Known And A Few Recollections Of My Time With Them
JOHN I first met John on a brutally crowded train from Birmingham to Devon. It turned out our reserved seats had been commandeered by two members of the same shrill family from Tamworth and that got us to talking. He could not have looked more out of place, standing there
