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I did a spoken word event recently in Tiverton, Devon, at a lovely shop called Liznojan Books, an independently run mother-and-daughter outlet with delicious cake. At this event I was asked two questions which I've given a fair bit of thought in the intervening hours: one question that
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I've not really been writing about cats for the last couple of years, what with being so busy on 21st Century Yokel and Help The Witch and the early stages of the two books that will come after that, but inevitably cats will sneak into my writing in
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24th March, 2018 Sometimes you have to move away from a place to truly realise that it’s Home. After a winter of researching and writing dark fictional tales in The Peak District, I’ve been back in Devon for a couple of weeks and, despite what for the South
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Woodbrook, by David Thomson (1974) I'd not read Woodbrook before I wrote my new book and they're very very different works in many ways but I relate to its intentions in that it is, like mine, a not-quite nature book, a not-quite social history book, a
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Louise King (Facebook): Has the process of writing this new book altered how you experience walking through the countryside? Tom: It has, especially if I define “writing this new book” as beginning in 2008, when I started to walk a lot in Norfolk, where I was living at the time.
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BRUCE CHATWIN - ON THE BLACK HILLTelling the story of identical, psychically entwined twin brothers living on a hillside on the Wales-Herefordshire border - and, simultaneously, the story of farming life in the 20th Century - On The Black Hill feels like a book specifically written for me: it has
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8th October, 2015My new book is out today. This coincides with the nominal birthday of my cat The Bear (all I really know is that he was born “around this time” in 1995, as he’s a rescue cat). In the post, with perfect timing, The Bear receives a celebratory
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A piece I wrote for The Guardian about reorganising my bookshelves.