Tom Cox (writer)

Tom Cox
Tom Cox on a cliff-top in East Devon
GenreNature, Humour, Fiction, Folklore, Music, Golf

Tom Cox is a British author.

Biography

Tom Cox is a Nottinghamshire-born British author,[1] who to date has published nine books, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Good, The Bad & The Furry and Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia, his account of his year as Britain’s most inept golf professional, which was long listed for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year award.

Writing

Between 1999 and 2000 he was the chief rock critic for The Guardian[2] and went on to write columns and features for many other newspapers and magazines, before quitting print journalism altogether in 2015 to write regular pieces about the countryside, folklore and many other subjects exclusively for his voluntary subscription website.[3]

His new book 21st Century Yokel, published in October 2017, is described as “a nature book, but not quite like any you will have read before” and was crowd funded in a record-breaking seven hours.[4][5][6] The book explores the way we can be tied to landscape, 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 quite a collection of essays, but a bit of all six. 21st Century Yokel was also made available as an audiobook.[7][8]

Tom then write his fiction debut Help The Witch, a collection of ghost stories he has been wanting to write since he was eight, which was crowd funded via Unbound [9] and was published in August 2018.

Bibliography
  • Nice Jumper (Black Swan 2002)
  • Educating Peter (Black Swan 2003)
  • The Lost Tribes Of Pop (Piatkus 2006)
  • Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia (Yellow Jersey Press 2007)
  • Under The Paw (Simon & Schuster 2008)
  • Talk To The Tail (Simon & Schuster 2011)
  • The Good, The Bad And The Furry (Sphere 2013)
  • Close Encounters of the Furred Kind (Sphere 2015)
  • 21st Century Yokel (Unbound 2017)
  • Help The Witch (Unbound, 2018) Shirley Jackson Award
  • Ring The Hill (Unbound, 2019)
  • Rebel Without A Course (Yellow Jersey Press, publication date TBC)

References
  1. http://www.tom-cox.com/p/tom-cox-biography.html
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tomcox
  3. http://www.tom-cox.com/
  4. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/tom-cox-book-breaks-unbound-crowdfunding-records-511641
  5. http://www.tom-cox.com/1975/09/21st-century-yokel.html
  6. Sethi, Anita (26 November 2017). "21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox review – entertaining ramble through English folklore". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  7. https://www.amazon.co.uk/21st-Century-Yokel/dp/B0773TNMQ9/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1507630440&sr=1-1
  8. http://www.tom-cox.com/1975/09/21st-century-yokel.html
  9. https://unbound.com/books/help-the-witch/
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