New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.

What I Am Able To Tell You About Houses

Today's essay, which you'll find directly below, is quite a personal one, and I'm limiting it to paying subscribers only. A paying subscription costs a minimum of £2 per month (or £20 per year if you prefer), allows you to read everything new I

Memories Of My Time Living In Edwardian Britain

"... we also missed the other horses who’d done quieter jobs that you hadn’t noticed so much at the time, such as the Data Entry Horse, the Tax Horse, and the Listening Horse, whose job it was to bear witness to your innermost troubles and interject every few minutes with a calming neigh."

Letter From Badger

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In The Village Churchyard Where The Lovers Are Buried

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An In-Depth History Of The Railways

This is not actually an in-depth history of the railways. As you might have noticed if you spend any time on my website, I have a self-sabotaging habit of often giving my pieces thoroughly unclickbait titles which often only abstractly, at most, describe what they contain (I think of it

Houses In Motion

The 20 Best Interdimensional Portals I Have Photographed On Walks In The British Countryside

Subscribe now 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln 2. Dr Who Stipulates In Contract "This Time I Want To Be Able To Receive Letters" Prior To Brutalist Reboot 3. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs 4. "My Pagan stoner-psych concept LP 'Brutalist Dystopia

Why Reading Online Reviews Of Your Book Will Lead You Nowhere Good

A Brief, Unsparingly Honest Guide To The Real British Countryside From Someone Who Knows

My Ex-Husband's Landlady

I've taken the paywall off this story, just for the next 24 hours, in a devious attempt to lure a few of you into a paying subscription for future writing. I hope you enjoy it. Subscribe now My ex-husband’s landlady is 77 years old, five feet nine

Black Dog

My cat Roscoe - who some of you might have been introduced to recently via her more vapid alter ego - turns 14 this month. She's a healthy cat, young for her age, which makes my mind boggle a bit as it hits me that precisely ten years