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A Slightly Different End-Of-Year Top Five

Now Get Back To It, You F***ing Baby

8 Questions for... Tom Cox

The Cat: A Folk Tale For Midwinter

A Newsletter Where I Write In A Fairly Chaotic Way About Several Ostensibly Unrelated Things, Some Of Which Are Depressing And Worrying, Some Of Which Are Thankfully Not

The Don't Mind Me Decade

Some Photos From My Family's Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became

The True Story Of How Julian Cope Licked My Entire Face And Hypnotised Me Into An Occult Life On The Margins Of Society

Houses In Motion

The House That Books Held Together

Some Ghosts I Have Known Who Turned Out To Be Massive Pricks

Hard Facts

How A Novel Gave Birth To A Record

A Few Brief Bits And Bobs For Your Ears And Eyes

Nine Things I've Had On My Mind, Including Amsterdam

The Ghost House

Why Don't We Read Like We Used To?

The Cat Who Travelled Through Time

North Devon

Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover (But Also Do, A Bit, Actually)

IMPORTANT NEWSFLASH 21st-Century Yokel Is Currently FREE To Listen To On Audible

TEN BASIC BUT IMPORTANT RULES FOR BEING AN AUTHOR

I'm Sorry, I Cannot Afford To Purchase Your House, But I Will Write Intricately Woven Unorthodox Stories About It

Once Upon A Time On A Lane

The True Stories Behind The Photos In Some Of The Vogue Magazine Adverts Of The Late 1960s And Early 1970s

Goodbye Kind Friend

Thank You! (Yes, you too, there at the back.)

Some Notes About My Dad That I Have Made In My Notebooks

Everything Will Swallow You

WHY HAS HE BROUGHT THIS PIG INTO OUR BOOKSHOP?

Who Would Like Three Free Signed Books?

At Home With The Actor, Influencer And Designer Philippa Islington-Smythe

The Post-Book Crash Is Real And Don't Let Anybody Tell You Otherwise

A Walk To Bog End And Back With My Dad

More Corbel

Lots Of People Will Unsubscribe As A Result Of This, Solely Because It's My Second Post In Consecutive Days, But The Fact Is My Cat Died And I Needed To Write About It

Three Magical Walks Very Few People Know About

A Great School

Bloomin' Eck, My New Book Is Finally Here!

Things About The Countryside That Make Me Angry, And Some Photographs I Have Taken Of Them

The Struggle To Leave The Footbath

My Notebooks

The Village Message Board

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

BOOKS!

The Gun's Always Loaded, The Horse Always Kicks

The Very Grungy Caterpillar

The Magic Room

Can You Please Stop Telling Me To Live My Best Life Please

A Writing Pledge From Me To Me For The Future

The True Stories Behind Some Of The Photos In The 1970s Habitat Catalogues

All The Life Coaches Have Life Coaches

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

What Has The Nasty Little Syrup-Based Fucker Been Up To?

The Wall

A Short True Life Account Of A Near Death Experience

What Will Life Really Be Like After The Internet Gets Incinerated?

Granny Kettlebridge

Remembering A Very Special Cat

Houses In Motion

An exclusive early excerpt from a work-in-progress

The Lion, The Witch And the Dress Code

Dancing With Giants

An Interview (And A Few Things I've Been Reading/Doing)

Many Nice Things

A Review Of Some Of The Contents Of My House By A Domesticated Moorland Pixie

Fornication!

A Spring Notebook

My Dad And The Toad Who Lived In His Shoe

Extracts From My Notebooks Part II

Extracts From My Notebooks

Physical and Psychic Encounters With The Extremely Famous And How They Have Forever Altered Me As A Person

This Is Not Your Beautiful House

1993

Why It's VITAL To Remember That Big Publishers And Their Sales Departments Always Know Best

Something More Productive

Stepping Stones

A Confession

Everything Will Swallow You

Hunter-Gathering For Wimps

1983: Exclusive extract (read by me) and an upcoming deadline

Once Upon A Time On A Lane

About Golf

How To Simultaneously Be On The Internet And Read All The Books And Achieve Great Success And Wealth By Telling People How To Live

HOW JULIAN COPE LICKED MY ENTIRE FACE AND HYPNOTISED ME INTO AN OCCULT LIFE ON THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY

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