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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.

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.

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

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

Despite the best endeavours of his frankly rather groovy parents, nascent fashion sense and regular exposure to credible music from an early age, he was inexorably drawn into the bizarre, esoteric world that is golf, with its male- bonding rituals and strange trousers.

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

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes this unique blend of nature writing and memoir: longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018

Exploring the whimsical world of feline timekeeping, this book delves into the curious habits and behaviors of cats. It highlights the unique ways cats perceive time, contrasting their leisurely approach to life with the fast-paced human world. Through charming illustrations and playful anecdotes, readers gain insights into the personalities of these beloved pets and their mysterious routines. The narrative invites cat lovers to appreciate the joy of living in the moment, as seen through the eyes of their furry companions.

The narrative invites readers to explore the allure of a charismatic protagonist, prompting self-reflection on desires and aspirations. It delves into themes of identity, envy, and the complexities of wanting to embody someone else's life. The story challenges perceptions of success and fulfillment, encouraging readers to confront their own dreams and the sacrifices made in pursuit of them.

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