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The Feud by Thomas Berger
A piece 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.
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'Wild Swimming' - It's A Bit Like Calling Lawn-Mowing 'Wild Vacuuming'
My latest country column for The Guardian.
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How To Write A Literary Novel: A Few Pointers For Getting Started
* Writing a literary novel is incredibly tough, so you should be well-prepared for the fact that life is not going to be normal while you're doing it, and your social life will fall by the wayside. The process takes untold dedication and sacrifice. Though it's worth
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Walking Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula
A piece I wrote for last weekend's Financial Times.
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"I'M GOING TO HAVE A WAZ ON THE COMPOST NOW."
My latest country column - on gardening with my dad - for The Guardian's Life And Style Section.
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Why I Love Scarecrows: A Column For The Guardian
The first of my new monthly countryside columns for the The Guardian's Life And Style section...
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Happy 20th Birthday Sloan: The Band That Most Made Me Want To Write For A Living
All writers have an early turning point or moment of encouragement that kicks off their career in earnest, gives them that little extra push to makes them believe they are capable of doing what they love well enough to be paid for it. I think I have a few, but
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Marathon Man: A Diary (Part Three)
Read part one. Read part two. April 13th, 2008: The Big Day Despite my dad’s boundless enthusiasm for being observed in his athletic endeavours, I decided not to join him and my mum for the start of the marathon today, feeling that at that point he would be better
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Cards Of My Mum's Ralph And The Bear linocuts from Graffeg
Click here to see Graffeg's range of my mum's prints of The Bear and Ralph.
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@MYSADCAT, @MYSMUGCAT and Kitten Advice Cards and Calendars from Graffeg
Click here to see Graffeg's collection of cards and calendars celebrating the best of @MYSADCAT, @MYSMUGCAT and #kittenadvice, featuring my cats The Bear, Ralph, Roscoe, Shipley and George.
Tom Cox books
Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia (2007)
As a teenager, Tom Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. And then, one day, he walked away. But as he got older, those dreams kept coming back. Perhaps it was turning thirty, perhaps it was having his first hole in
Tom Cox books
Nice Jumper (2002)
During the summer of 1988, something strange and disorientating happened to Tom Cox: he became a teenager. Then, something even stranger and more disorientating happened: despite the best endeavours of his relatively groovy, under appreciated parents, Tom started to play golf. Lots of it. Finding himself inexorably drawn to a