Stress

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tom Cox

Psychology & Counseling

Macmillan

As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed. 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. And thus a strange hybrid was born - from 1988 to 1995, Tom was Midlands golf's answer to Iggy Pop. Assisted by his fellow junior members at the local club, he cut a swathe through the golfing establishment, putting dead animals in his fellow golfers' shoes, setting fire to the club professional's shop, bringing Colin Montgomerie close to tears and repeatedly wearing the wrong colour of socks. On the golf course he felt simultaneously at home and somehow alienated. But Tom also wanted to be (and became) the best, taking five years out of normal adolescent existence to live, breathe, walk and talk nothing but the sport he loved. "Nice Jumper" is the story of how Tom tried to fit in, failed, got down to a handicap of two, tried to fit in again, got suspended from the club, got corrupted by rock and roll, then attempted to corrupt golf itself. It's a book about one teenager's obsessive attempts to attain sporting nirvana despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fashion.

Nice Jumper

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Black Swan.

Black Swan Books, Limited

Have you ever moved house, over a distance of 350 miles, with four cats? If you haven't, and are thinking about it, I'll give you some advice: don't. 
If you really must move, try to get the cats to arrange their own transport. Focus on yourself instead. You'll have plenty to think about as it is, and the cats will only get in the way with their sarcasm and hairballs. I moved from Norfolk to Devon with four cats and it felt like such an impossible ordeal, part of me believes that I actually died somewhere along the way and am now living in some kind of afterlife: very much like real life, but a little slower moving, and with slightly clearer air. "That's just the West Country," I've been told, but I can't be 100% certain.

Close Encounters of the Furred Kind

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

SPHERE

School Records: Kindergarten-12 Grade

I C a Publishers

Humorous and endearing, The Good, the Bad and the Furry is a heartwarming memoir about a man at the mercy of his unpredictable, demanding and endlessly lovable cats. 
Meet The Bear―a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat please? Like many intellectuals, The Bear would prefer a life of quiet solitude with plenty of time to gaze forlornly into space and contemplate society's ills. Unfortunately, he is destined to spend his days surrounded by felines of a significantly lower IQ. 
There is Janet, a large man cat who often accidentally sets fire to his tail by walking too close to lighted candles; Ralph, a preening tabby who enjoys meowing his own name at 5AM; and Shipley, Ralph's brother, who steals soup but is generally relaxed once you pick him up and turn him upside down. 
And then there's Tom Cox, writing with wit and charm about the unexpected adventures that go hand-in-hand with a life at the beck and call of four cats.

The Good, the Bad, and the Furry: Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Thomas Dunne Books

Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond

Following on from Tom's life with six cats in 'Under The Paw', he now picks up the story in 'Talk To The Tail', updating readers on what has happened with his feline friends as well as looking back for more confessions about his animal-loving past.

Simon&Schuster

In 'Under the Paw', there is death, depression, flying fur, the first human sentence spoken by a feline. Tom Cox records the chaos of owning seven of the most charismatic, idiotic and duplicitous cats in the country.

Under the Paw

Simon Schuster Ltd

Ring The Hill

His work has been described by Robert Macfarlane as 'funny, wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' now Tom Cox returns with Ring the Hill, written in his inimitable voice and studded with his trademark humour.\nIt is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a European hill, some hills from East Anglia that can barely be called hills at all. Each chapter takes a type of hill whether it be knoll, cap, cliff, tor, bump or even mere hillock as a starting point for one of Cox's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations.\nThese can lead to an account of an intimate relationship with a beach, a journey into Cox's past or a lesson from an expert in what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might take you.

Ring the Hill

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Unbound

Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man

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