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Even if you can't avoid doing it sometimes| Tom Cox
Even if you can't avoid doing it sometimes| Tom Cox
Support My Writing By Upgrading To A Paid Subscription Why have I been thinking about death so much this week? It’s probably an autumn thing and no doubt it’s not entirely unrelated to my recent health problems but also, taking a glance back at what I’ve been| Tom Cox
Subscribe now Melbury Beacon isn’t quite the highest place in Dorset, but, at 263 metres above sea level, it’s one of the big boys and, much like the man I walked to it with a couple of autumns ago, probably has no trouble seeing when it| Tom Cox
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.| Tom Cox
Today's post is free but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £10 per year, or via a one-off donation here. * Please spare a thought for Jim the cat. 31 months ago, when he first| Tom Cox
Grey Charm (January 1967)| Tom Cox
This is a piece I wrote a while ago but I wanted to make it free to read again. I wrote it during the very early stages of planning for my novel 1983 when a memory popped up of wandering around the Nottingham branch of the furniture store Habitat with| Tom Cox
You might think I am being unkind when I say “crazy shrub-haired widow” in reference to my ex-husband’s landlady, but I assure you I am not.| Tom Cox
Today's post is free but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £10 per year, or via a one-off donation here. My dad has come to an arrangement| Tom Cox
Today's post is free but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £10 per year, or via a one-off donation here. Picture it: that classic, timeless scene, the newlyweds in| Tom Cox
I'm poorly at the moment so I've decided to take a few more days working on the new piece I was originally planning to post today. Instead, because it's now a mere TWENTY DAYS until Everything Will Swallow You comes out, I wanted to| Tom Cox
Thanks for joining me here, away from the noise of the Substack app, on my renovated newsletter. It's pretty much the same as the old one, except I'm keeping everything unpaywalled for now, and have set up a selection of subscriber options, from £1 per| Tom Cox
“I saw a frog!” a girl or boy might say. So that day we would learn about frogs, and draw, or even make, frogs.| Tom Cox
Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free.| Tom Cox
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You can listen to me reading this to you out loud here if you’d like to:| Tom Cox
Much has happened to me over this past week, but perhaps the place to begin is that last Thursday afternoon I saved a French kitten’s life by grabbing it from between the jaws of a ravenous dog.| Tom Cox
Something I wrote a short while ago about the Beatles, the Get Back documentary, and what time does to art| Tom Cox
