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.
countryside
Me: "The road is beginning to get very steep now, as we get closer to the moor. You'll notice that it's a very acidic environment up there on the highest points, which has made farming impossible on the majority of the terrain for the last
animals
My February 2015 column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
ale
My January 2015 column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
ace records
The excellent Ace Records recently invited me to to pick my top ten songs on their label. This is what I wrote about them.
cats
A column for The Guardian
coast
It will soon be a year since I moved to Devon. I am still a novice Devonian, but I am falling more and more in love with the place, and have learned a few things about it during that time. Here are some of the main ones: 1. No sight
countryside
I was walking on Dartmoor today and noticed a pony roll over on his back, about forty yards from the path I was on, above Dartmeet, not far from Yar Tor. "Hello!" I said to him, in the fake posh voice I always use when speaking to ponies
book recommendations
Sara Maitland - Gossip From The Forest (Granta, 2013)I'm not convinced the travel aspect of Maitland's book (in which she visits one of her favourite bits of British forest every month for a year and discusses the symbiotic relationship of humans and woodland) and the
countryside
A column for The Guardian
cats
A column for The Guardian about my cats George and Roscoe.
countryside
A column for The Guardian
2015
ARIES A stranger will run past you on a dark street carrying a cake but you will soon forget him. TAURUSThis is a big year for you, full of revelations, the biggest of which being the realisation that you don’t hate all mushrooms, only a few. GEMINIThe left side