Tom Cox (writer)
Tom Cox (born 20 May 1975) is a British humour writer.
Biography
Cox is best known for writing books about animals (in particular, cats) and golf.
Cox’s first book, Nice Jumper, detailed his adolescence at a golf club in Nottinghamshire, and was described by the novelist William Boyd as “Golf’s answer to Fever Pitch… Funny, clever, and all too horribly true."[1] Its sequel, Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia, was an account of his year as Britain’s most inappropriate professional golfer in 2006. Under The Paw, Cox’s bestselling book to date, is a memoir about his life as a cat lover. His next book, Talk To The Tail, published in January 2011, was a comic memoir detailing further encounters with cats and other animals. In 2013, Cox published The Good, the Bad, and the Furry: Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat. Other writers to praise Cox’s writing besides Boyd include Kate Atkinson, David Sedaris and Julie Burchill.
Cox is also the author of two music books, Educating Peter and The Lost Tribes Of Pop, and in 1999 and 2000 was the Guardian’s Chief Pop Critic. He lives near Totnes in Devon and writes countryside columns for the Guardian and Devon Life magazine.
Bibliography
- Nice Jumper (2002, Black Swan)
- Educating Peter (2003, Black Swan)
- The Lost Tribes Of Pop (2006, Piatkus)
- Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia (2007, Yellow Jersey Press)
- Under The Paw (2008, Simon & Schuster)
- Talk To The Tail (2011, Simon & Schuster)
- The Good, The Bad And The Furry (2013, Sphere)
- Close Encounters of the Furred Kind (2015, Sphere)
References
- ↑ "Editorial Reviews". Random House. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
