Signed Books With Free Art

It's now only a couple of months until my third novel Everything Will Swallow You is published in paperback, but I wanted to let you know that I have a pile of signed hardbacks here which are available to readers in the UK for the cover price (£16.99) plus p&p. For no additional cost I'll also send you one of a selection of beautiful linoprint bookmarks my mum, Jo, has made, and a postcard from my dad's Time Travelling Cat series (I'm also happy to personalise each book for birthdays, friends etc). If you'd like to take me up on this offer please drop me an email via the contact form on my website. Apologies to those of you who don't live in the United Kingdom but I'm only sending these inland due to the high cost of overseas postage. However, the fantastic 147-year-old bookshop Blackwell's (whose main shop in Oxford will be hosting a talk from me in October, btw) will, amazingly, send the book to you with free international postage.

Everything Will Swallow You is an extremely hard book to summarise. To put it briefly, it's about the adventures of an antique and record dealer and the hyper-intelligent semi-aquatic creature he lives alongside, but it's also about how we turn facts into folklore (including the future kind), knitting, music, the power of landscape and dusty old objects, Dorset, Cornwall, the differences between the 20th and 21st Centuries, the idea of circular time, and the sea. You can read the first chapter of it here and another extract here, and - as an alternative to the usual routine of highlighting positive newspaper and magazine reviews - I've posted a few reader reviews below, which might give you a bit more idea about whether or not it's the kind of book that might take your fancy...

You can find Justin Avoth's fabulous narration of the audiobook here or - if you'd prefer to avoid Audible - here on Libro FM.

Notebook was finally republished last week.

Finally, I have a selection of larger original linoprints (see below) by my mum to give away to people who takes out a full paying annual subscription at the £70 Villager rate before midnight on Sunday May 3rd. This offer DOES apply worldwide - please drop me an email via the contact form once you have subscribed, letting me know your address, and I will post your print at the beginning of next week.

You can read more about my parents' art here.

Happy Beltane! More writing to come from me in a few gratifyingly long days, but here are a few of my recent pieces, in case you missed them...

What I Am Able To Tell You About Houses

Today’s essay, which you’ll find directly below, is quite a personal one, and I’m limiting it to paying subscribers only. A paying subscription costs a minimum of £2 per month (or £20 per year if you prefer), allows you to read everything new I post here, plus a massive archive

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Letter From Badger

New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.

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In The Village Churchyard Where The Lovers Are Buried

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Memories Of My Time Living In Edwardian Britain

″... we also missed the other horses who’d done quieter jobs that you hadn’t noticed so much at the time, such as the Data Entry Horse, the Tax Horse, and the Listening Horse, whose job it was to bear witness to your innermost troubles and interject every few minutes with a calming neigh.”

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An In-Depth History Of The Railways

This is not actually an in-depth history of the railways. As you might have noticed if you spend any time on my website, I have a self-sabotaging habit of often giving my pieces thoroughly unclickbait titles which often only abstractly, at most, describe what they contain (I think of it

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