book recommendations
World's End by TC Boyle
The latest in my Lost Classics Of American Literature series for Guardian Books.
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 of daniel
World's Fair by EL Doctorow
The fifth in my series on overlooked American novels for The Guardian's Books section.
countryside
A Dog Is For Life - Or Maybe Just An Afternoon
My December country column for The Guardian's Life And Style section. Read more about my adventures with Henry the spaniel in my latest book, Talk To The Tail...
avebury
Children Of The Stones
The folk horror genre of filmmaking could not be called prolific, but the few movies within it – mostly made during the early-to-mid 1970s – contain some of art’s most timelessly terrifying evocations of rural Britain. It’s perhaps surprising, then, that two of folk horror’s most revered creations, 1969’
castles
East Anglia: The Spookiest Place in Britain?
My latest country column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
affliction
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The fourth in my series on overlooked American novels for The Guardian's Books section.
financial times
Golf With Keith Allen
A piece by me for Financial Times Weekend Magazine.
andy hamilton
A Booze Foraging Walk In The West Country
A piece I wrote for this weekend's Financial Times Magazine.
Blakeney
Foraging In Norfolk
My latest Guardian dispatch from Norfolk: on foraging, courgettes, Richard Mabey, and preparing for the apocalypse.
countryside
Porpoises, a "tug off" war, and the meaning of being local
My latest country column for the Guardian.
american fiction
Straight Man By Richard Russo
The second of my columns for The Guardian Books section.
alpacas
The Day An Alpaca Flobbed On My Beard
My latest country column for The Guardian's Life And Style Section.