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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
dads
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
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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
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The Good, The Bad And The Furry (2013)
Meet THE BEAR - a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat, please?Like many intellectuals, The Bear would prefer a life of quiet solitude with plenty of
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Talk To The Tail (2011)
Following on from Tom Cox's life with six cats in UNDER THE PAW, he now picks up the story in TALK TO THE TAIL, updating readers on what has happened with his feline friends as well as looking back for more confessions about his animal-loving past. Readers of
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Under The Paw (2008)
For years, Tom Cox might have seemed like a regular, hard-living sort of bloke - a lover of late nights, rock music and beer - but he had a dark furry secret. Tom was a cat lover. Always had been, in fact. For a while, he kept his passion in
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Close Encounters Of The Furred Kind (2015)
"Have you ever moved house, over a distance of 350 miles, with four cats? If you haven't, and are thinking about it, I'll give you some advice: don't." The time has come for Tom Cox and his four cats - Ralph, Shipley,
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21st Century Yokel
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It’s not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not