Signed books! (And free art by my mum)

My mum, Jo, who has illustrated the inside of many of my books, has just very generously sent me a lovely package of handmade bookmarks (see above), featuring several of her linocut illustrations. I'm making these available exclusively on a first-come-first-served basis with the pile of the new paperback of Everything Will Swallow You that I have here (there are around 30 books and bookmarks in total). The cost is cover price (£9.99) plus p&p and I'm also happy to sign and personalise each book. Please email me at hello@tom-cox.com, letting me know your address, if you'd like one, and I'll reply with payment details.

Many apologies but this is a UK-only offer, as I can't bring myself to charge people the high Royal Mail postage costs (i.e. more than the cost of the book itself) to send the book overseas. However, the UK bookshop Blackwell's will - amazingly - send the book anywhere in the world with FREE delivery.

You can read a bit about my mum's artistic evolution here.

I also thought I'd take advantage of today's missive by putting together this little digest of posts for those of you who are new here, or who might have missed bits of my writing in the past....

A short essay I wrote about my love of herring gulls:

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

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An interview with Roscoe about her alter ego's secret life:

At Home With The Actor, Influencer And Designer Philippa Islington-Smythe

Subscribe now In this EXCLUSIVE broadsheet newspaper interview today, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world... “You are right: the late 1990s was a

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A piece about some of the best low budget British folk horror films you have never seen:

Some Photos From My Family’s Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became

I wrote this extremely silly episodic slice of what people much cooler and more digital than me now call “flash fiction”, themed around some old photos I found in a trunk at my mum and dad’s house, a couple of years ago, but I thought it worth a repost,

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Some notes about the best sheep I have photographed during my walks in the British countryside:

Some Notes About The Best Sheep I Have Photographed During My Walks In The Countryside

A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom. A flock of sheep who had been trying to sneak up on me while I was

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A story about a hagstone (extracted from my new book):

The Hagstone

Subscribe now I collect hagstones. Doesn’t everybody? There are around 30 of them sitting on our garden wall, mostly found on beaches in East Devon and Dorset, not all as large and impressive as the one pictured above but each one beautiful in its own way. A geologist recently

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A story about a bookshop, and its owner (also extracted from my new book):

Old Litkinov

Old Litkinov owned the bookshop down the road and, back when I was a poor student, I would sometimes sell him books that I had stolen from delivery trucks, supermarkets and the bedrooms of people who’d verbally undermined me. Ever perceptive, Litkinov surely knew what was going on and

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It's now only just over a month until my second short story collection, Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood, comes out. You can order a copy direct from the Breakthrough Books site here.