book recommendations
Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell
A piece I wrote on an overlooked American classic for the Guardian's Books section.
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.
book recommendations
The Frenzied, Pre-Apocalyptic World Of TC Boyle
An interview I did for The Observer newspaper.
dad
The Golf Between Us
A piece for SAGA magazine on my dad's valiant attempts to understand golf. (NB: that is not my dad I'm with in the photo - it's Colin Montgomerie. He does understand golf.)
cats
The Dadkitten
My latest Loud Dad report for Saga Magazine.
family
The Best Car I Ever Had
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
dad
"THAT WAS THE POINT I DECIDED I WAS GOING TO BE A BLACK MUSLIM TRUMPET PLAYER"
My latest Loud Dad report for Saga magazine.
book recommendations
Nothing But Blue Skies By Thomas McGuane
My latest Overlooked Classic Of American Literature for Guardian Books.
acid folk
Toni Arthur And Other East Anglian Witchcraft
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
dad
Down Memory Motorway
My third Loud Dad report for SAGA Magazine.
1950s
The Giant's House By Elizabeth McCracken
My latest Overlooked Classics Of American Literature column for The Guardian.
60something
"DO YOU WANT TO WATCH ME RUN AROUND THE FIELD?"
My first Loud Dad report for SAGA Magazine.
beatles
The Pagan Robotic World Of Bruce Lacey
“This is Rosa Bosom,” says 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