cats
"Has That Cat Got Semen On Its Back?"
A column for The Guardian about my cats George and Roscoe.
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.
countryside
My Lesson In Countryside Detective Work
A column for The Guardian
2015
2015 Horoscopes
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
countryside
A Walk On Dartmoor With Black Dogs
A column for The Guardian
fiction
The blank pages left for "notes" that came with my lawn mower are proving to be absolutely invaluable.
dad
Good Log Story From My Dad
Was on the phone to my dad the other day. He told me a good story about a log so I thought I'd transcribe it. (My dad is 65.)
book recommendations
Theo, by Ed Taylor
On the whole, rock and roll novels don't work. Admittedly, I say that as someone who doesn't get on with a lot of fiction OR non-fiction music books (including the two I've written myself and summarily tried my best to forget about), but nobody
countryside
A Walk Along The River Dart To Wistman's Wood
A column for The Guardian
cats
Looking Death In The Face: Just A Normal Part Of Life In The Countryside
A column for The Guardian
cats
Cat Advice That Only Dads Can Give
A column for The Guardian.
countryside
Eight Rules For Walking In East Anglia
A column for The Guardian.
music
Wake Up The Moths by Matt Deighton - a lost folk horror classic
“Ghost folk,” was the term that sprang to mind the first time I heard Wake Up The Moths, Matt Deighton’s fourth and finest (to date) solo album. There are a few rare records whose ambience is so powerful (I’m thinking immediately here of Exile On Main Street) that