A01=Tom Cox
Author_Tom Cox
bewitching
Category=JBGB
Category=WND
country walk
curiosity
David Sedaris
English folklore
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essays
family memoir
folklore
funny
humour
mystical
nature writing
Sunday Times Bestselling Author
Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize
walking
Product details
- ISBN 9781800755994
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Swift Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties the ancient kind and the everyday variety as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.
Tom's writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched by fresh air and big skies, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless and prone to a few detours, but it always reaches its destination in the end.
Tom Cox was born in Nottinghamshire in 1975 and now lives in Devon. His fifteen books include Villager, 1983, the Sunday Times top ten bestseller The Good, The Bad And The Furry, the Wainwright Prize-longlisted 21st-Century Yokel and Help The Witch, which won a Shirley Jackson Horror Writing award. You can subscribe to his Substack page at tomcox.substack.com
