Tom Cox Books

The latest installment of hilarious moggy mischief from Tom Cox and his four cats: The Bear, Ralph, Shipley and Roscoe.

Sunday Times bestselling author Tom Cox writes around, and about, nine types of hill, taking each as a starting point for one of his inimitable explorations

This selection of writing by Sunday Times bestselling author Tom Cox contains his unfiltered thoughts on footpaths, wood pigeons, mixtapes and much more

A funny and heart-warming sequel to Under the Paw from 'Mad Cat Man', Tom Cox

The Sunday Times Bestseller: A heartwarming memoir about a man at the mercy of his unpredictable, demanding and endlessly lovable cats.

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. But the fortunes of one West Country village are watched over and irreversibly etched into its history as an omniscient, somewhat crabby, presence keeps track of village life.In the late sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill where he writes a set of haunting folk songs that will earn him a group of obsessive fans and a cult following. Two decades later, a couple of teenagers disturb a body on the local golf course. In 2019, a pair of lodgers discover a one-eyed rag doll hidden in the walls of their crumbling and neglected home. Connections are forged and broken across generations, but only the landscape itself can link them together. A landscape threatened by property development and superfast train corridors and speckled by the pylons whose feet have been buried across the moor.

For years, Tom Cox appeared to be a typical hard-living guy, enjoying late nights, rock music, and beer, but he harbored a secret: he was a devoted cat lover. Initially, he kept this passion under wraps, but after meeting his soulmate Dee, a fellow cat enthusiast, he could no longer suppress his true dream. In 2001, Tom left his life as a rock critic in London and moved with Dee, her cat Janet, and three new kittens to a remote area in Norfolk, where they knew no one. They believed their cat obsession had reached its peak, but they were mistaken. In UNDER THE PAW, Tom chronicles the chaos of owning seven of the most charming and mischievous cats imaginable. He reflects on the transformation from a carefree metropolitan lifestyle to being on constant call for multiple sets of whiskers. He tackles questions like how to properly dispose of a dead pheasant and how to embrace his wife's ex's favorite pet. Amidst the chaos, he shares the poignant story of his complex relationship with The Bear, his oldest cat—a "painfully sensitive" survivor who may or may not be an evil genius. Through humor and heartfelt moments, Tom navigates the ups and downs of cat ownership, revealing the joys and challenges that come with it.

The tale of an imaginative childhood set in 1980s Nottinghamshire, from Sunday Times-bestselling author, Tom Cox. 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. His family are the eccentric neighbours on a street where all the houses are set on a tilt, slowly subsiding into the excavated space below. Told through Benji's voice and a colourful variety of others over a deeply joyful and strange twelve month period, it's a story about growing up, the oddness beneath the everyday, what we once believed the future would be, and those times in life when anything seems possible. 1983 is steeped in the distinctive character of a setting far weirder than it might at first appear: from robots living next door, and a school caretaker who is not all he seems, to missing memories and the aliens Benji is certain are trying to abduct him.

A collection of folk ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author Tom Cox.