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.
music
“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
countryside
A column for The Guardian.
fiction
countryside
A column for The Guardian.
countryside
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.
accent
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.
Cambridge
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.
book recommendations
My review of the new George Saunders book for the Daily Telegraph.
a prickly affair
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian
animals
A Guardian column about my senior citizen survivor cat, The Bear.
agriculture
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
My latest 21st Century Yokel column for the Guardian's Life And Style section.