Saturday's Newsletter (And Some Free Art For New Subscribers)

Saturday's Newsletter (And Some Free Art For New Subscribers)

Apologies: I changed email sending domains a couple of weeks ago and I've since discovered that, due to a glitch in the changeover (hopefully all sorted now), only a smallish percentage of subscribers received my latest essay on Saturday. It's quite a hefty one which I worked quite hard on, and you can read it here:

A Summer’s Tale
The full version of today’s essay, which is about a hot dry summer, the books I’ve been reading during it, a little-known French film from 1996, and what we mistake for knowledge in 2026, is for paying subscribers only. If you’d like to read it you

If you'd like to upgrade your membership from free to paying and read the whole piece, you can do that as a price of your choice, beginning at just £1.66 per month. For all new subscribers who decide to take out an annual subscription at the Help The Witch (£40 per year) or Villager (£70 per year) levels before 8am tomorrow I'll be sending out one of the following original pieces of art by my mum, Jo. This offer applies worldwide.

It's now only just over a month until my new book is out. You can pre-order yours (including a signed copy, if you like), and contribute to prints costs in the process, here. For those overseas who are struggling to afford the high postage we hope to have some good news soon about the book being available at Blackwell's, who, as you probably know by now, do free international delivery on my others.

A few other stories and essays by me which you might have missed:

Thinking About Thinking
New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.
Photographs Of Scarecrows I’ve Met On Walks And Some Important Biographical Information About Them
New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.
Lillian
I didn’t realise when I woke up this morning that I was going to write a spooky story in its entirety, nor quite what it was going to be about (apart from an unnerving memory from my childhood about a wrong number and a light in a haunted house)
It’s A Herring Gull’s World (We Just Live In It)
The full version of today’s post if for paying subscribers (because I haven’t done one of those for a while). If you’d like to read it you can support my writing for as little as £1.66 per month, which will give you access to my full