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.
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A stranger told me the other day - from a place of kindness and scattered facts - what an awful year I’ve had. But that is not my own feeling when I assess this year. Yes, I had the stress of two house moves during national lockdowns, one of
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I live beside a river now, which I know might not seem like the most soothing or pragmatic choice for someone whose life has recently been derailed by problems with water, but I’ve never liked to do things the easy way. I lived beside a river many years ago,
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Part One: Part Two: My first ever novel, VILLAGER, is now up for funding. If you'd like to reserve a copy, you can do so here. This is my most recent book, in case you'd like a read of it. If you feel compelled to, you
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The nearest river to my house is called the Avon. It’s one of six River Avons in the UK and possibly the quietest of the bunch, although I couldn’t say for sure because I have only met three of the others in person and nobody - not even
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Part one: Part two: My first ever novel, VILLAGER, is now up for funding. If you'd like to reserve a copy, you can do so here. This is my most recent book. If you feel compelled to, you can subscribe to this website, either just for email updates
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I’m not supposed to like the music of Taylor Swift, but who says so? I’m not going to name names but I definitely don’t think my enthusiasm for her records would meet with the approval of the amorphous voice out there in society that demands that you
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After an energetic walk on the coast with my friend, we sat on the village green and I was introduced to a thatcher. My friend knows every human person aged between 24 and 58 in the whole of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset, so it made total sense that he
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I have shingles at the moment. I remember at various points in my life people talking in a tone of great pity and sympathy about other people who had shingles but I don’t think I’d ever properly considered what it was. Now I know. What happens is a
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This is Rosa Bosom,’ said Bruce Lacey, showing me into the living room of his chilly, cluttered Norfolk farmhouse and pointing towards a seven-foot robot with a tailor’s dummy arms, a chest full of wires and large red lips. ‘Her name stands for Radio Operated Simulated Actress Battery Operated
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My house flooded this month. Twice. First, water seeped through the back wall of the living room, turning the floorboards black. Next, it poured through the kitchen ceiling from the bathroom. It was hard to tell at first if the two floods were related, and, though now it seems more