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Tom Cox is a British author of nature, humour, fiction, folklore, music and golf books. He has published twelve books, including 21st Century Yokel, Help the Witch and Villager, and won a Shirley Jackson Award for his short stories.
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Tom Cox was born in Nottinghamshire, now lives in Devon and is the bestselling author of fifteen books of fiction and non-fiction. His debut short story collection Help The Witch won a Shirley Jackson Award and his 2017 book 21st-Century Yokel was long listed for The Wainwright Prize.
3 days ago · Tom Cox. 3.79. 52 ratings24 reviews. Benji is an imaginative eight-year-old boy, living with his parents in a mining village in Nottinghamshire amidst the spoil heaps and chip shops that characterise the last industrially bruised outposts of the Midlands, just before Northern England begins.
Apr 28, 2022 · Tom Cox. 4.01. 516 ratings105 reviews. There’s so much to know. It will never end, I suspect, even when it does. So much in all these lives, so many stories, even in this small place. Villages are full of tales: some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore.
Tom Cox is a UK-based author of books on landscape, music, folklore and more. He shares his writing on Substack, a platform for independent creators and publishers.
As ever, Tom Cox’s musing and meditations are profound and playful, reflective and seriously readable, riffing on the difficulties of locating bat detectors in Argos one moment and painting heartbreaking eulogies to his Nan the next. A storyteller in entrancing form’ Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground
