countryside
Confessions Of A Wannabe Sheep Owner
A column for The Guardian.
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.
fiction
The temptation was almost unbearable...
countryside
Birdwatching For Beginners
A column for The Guardian.
countryside
My Dad, And The Toad That Lived In His Shoe
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.
accent
"Taffy Peacock? I See Him Yisdee"
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.
Cambridge
Nunkie, MR James And The Spooky Side Of East Anglia
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.
book recommendations
The Tenth Of December
My review of the new George Saunders book for the Daily Telegraph.
a prickly affair
Some Surprising Stuff About Hedgehogs
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian
animals
The Cat With Seventeen Lives
A Guardian column about my senior citizen survivor cat, The Bear.
agriculture
Scarecrow Finds Of A Norfolk Sunday
Today I ruined some perfectly good shoes, did the biggest running leap over water that I've done for twenty years and dropped my phone in a ditch all in the name of getting close enough to this scarecrow to photograph it. I think it was worth it: I
countryside
Norfolk Junk Shops And Wax Museums: The Perfect Setting For The Best Horror Film You Have Never Seen
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for the Guardian's Life And Style section.
fiction
Four Unlikely Pet Memoir Synopses
1. John: A Pretty Fucking Ordinary Owl John, a snowy owl, moves in with Martha, a bereaved schoolteacher. Together, they set off on a road trip around America together, visiting historical spots, and meeting other birdlife. John, however, turns out to have very little personality, and mostly just stares off