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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 history as an omniscient, somewhat crabby, presence keeps track of village life.

In the late sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill and writes a set of haunting folk songs that will earn him a cult following. Two decades later, some 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 home. Connections are forged and broken across generations, but only the landscape itself can link them together. A landscape threatened by property development and speckled by the pylons whose feet have been buried across the moor.

Tom Cox’s masterful debut novel synthesises his passion for music, nature and folklore into a psychedelic and enthralling exploration of village life and the countryside that sustains it.

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30 Mar. 2023
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1800182376
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978-1800182370
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'Tom’s newest book, his debut novel Villager, takes the reader on his strangest and most gloriously idiosyncratic trip yet' Writing Magazine
'A rich potpourri that keeps us busy enough not to worry about what it adds up to’ Anthony Cummins,Mail on Sunday
'Few books have such a damply pungent sense of place as Tom Cox’s intriguing first novel' Guardian
’This is ideal summer holiday reading - to be relished piecemeal or devoured in one fell swoop, as I did’ BBC Countryfile
‘The true appeal of the story is its interweaving of themes and narratives ... Villager is one of the must-read novels of 2022’ Matthew d’Ancona, Tortoise Media
'An exquisitely detailed, many-voiced tale of people, place and folklore ... a communication with lost voices rich in wonder, longing and exalted psychedelic flight' Mojo
‘A joyous tumble of animism, love, music and mystery that beautifully balances awe and irreverence: Villager left me with a sense of an ancient longing that is hard to shake off’ Zoe Gilbert
'What will I be able to read after Villager? I'll just read it again, I guess. And again. Just cancel all other books' Adele Nozedar, author of The Hedgerow Handbook
'A relatable and compelling read ... Anyone would love it' Dorian Cope
'Villager is a marvellously inventive and imaginative fiction. A tremendous novel' William Boyd
'Tom Cox’s books are hedgerows. All about the journey and not the destination. They delicately link one stunning viewpoint to another whilst providing nourishment for the heart and soul, a safe haven for a host of endangered fantasies, musings and stories' Alice Lowe
‘Villager is delightfully convoluted, otherworldly and captivating, immersing the reader in the contours and personality of the landscape and those who inhabit it’ Mark Diacono
‘A synthesis of folklore, nature and the curious psychedelia in ordinary experience that points to the truths in which we find meaning. Tom Cox is a master of effortless, fluid storytelling and Villager is alive with both gnawing edge and Cox's signature flavour of clipped, pragmatic humour which is perfectly juxtaposed with the unbounded imagination of Villager's world . . . It’s tender and dark and strangely comforting. I loved it’ Laura Kennedy, Irish Times & Sunday Times
‘Tom is such an original mind, and brave in his approach to writing, so it's no surprise at all that he has written a novel that surprises, delights and fizzes with imagination' Sathnam Sanghera
‘A glorious ramble … This is an epic, oddball soap opera soundtracked by folk music, birdsong and the rattle of hedgerows against car windows … Its psychedelic tangle suggests that our short lives can nourish the landscape, if we watch our step’ Guardian

About the Author

Tom Cox lives in Devon. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Good, The Bad and The Furry and the William Hill Sports Book longlisted Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia. 21st-Century Yokel was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and the titular story of Help the Witch won a Shirley Jackson Award. @cox_tom

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Unbound (30 Mar. 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1800182376
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1800182370

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Tom Cox is the author of, among others, the Sunday Times bestselling The Good, The Bad and The Furry and the Wainwright Prize longlisted 21st-Century Yokel. Help the Witch, his first collection of short stories, was published in 2018 and won a Shirley Jackson award.

"21st-Century Yokel is simultaneously the funniest and saddest book about the modern countryside that I know. But no surprise there, because Tom Cox is THE soulman of British literature." - John Lewis-Stempel, author of The Running Hare

"Tom Cox is a very funny writer." - Kate Atkinson

"Made me laugh out loud." - David Sedaris

"Tom Cox writes brilliantly about golf." William Boyd

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Mimosa

A Verdant Gem

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 May 2022

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This is a green gift of a book. I love Cox’s nature writing in particular and struggle with his short stories because he is a writer of depth and breadth and short stories don’t do that justice. I was apprehensive approaching this book for that reason. He has the patience and the talent for the long haul and this book shows that in the beautifully written descriptions, particularly of Dartmoor. I felt immersed in the greenness of Dartmoor it reminded me of a time I was invited by a friend to a Wiccan ceremony, I can’t even remember which one, but a summer one, I left that night feeling connected to time out of ages as if it was all one and it came home with me, that deep connection. This is the feeling I was left with after reading this book. This book that deepened with every successive chapter. If I have a reservation it’s that the beginning was thinner, it would have been nice to have the same depth rewritten at the start, likewise the narrative voice. In the early chapters it bothered me inordinately that I didn’t know who was speaking and that, in part, distracted me from the words themselves. I also feared being excluded from the book by the musical references as I’m not big on music except radio 3 in the car. However, I am big on creativity and that is essentially what the music in this represents, how we and the world create and are changed by what we do, the almost painful reflections on why some of us ‘make it’ and others do not and does that make the creating any the less valid? Thoughts I’ve been pondering over for a very long time and given voice to here. Thanks to Tom Cox for this very thought provoking and feeling book.

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Brian E. Downes

Eco Fantasy?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 June 2022

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Not read this author before, probably will not dip into his other works. Well worked, but a bit off the wall.
Not mainstream, probably goes down well with a niche following.

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Lived the surrealism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 June 2022

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This book is unlike Tom Cox's previous books and no less brilliant. I love the shifts in time, but never in place, and between characters, human and otherwise. His sense of humour always hits the spot.

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Francis Frost

One to read again soon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 May 2022

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Excellent book, often extremely funny. I particularly enjoy the juxtaposition of the mundane and the magic. Particularly loved the online village bulletin board part.. I'll read it again in a couple of months. Keep writing, Tom, your books are unique.

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Crispin Pemberton

Weird and not very wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 July 2022

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Really tried to get into this book but struggled with the disjointed plotting and lack of a coherent theme. Amusing in places which kept me engaged longer than it should. Just wanted my life back eventually and gave up on it half way through. Probably a fine work but it didn't work for me.

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janice house

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 May 2022

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Brilliant, funny almost ingenious read!!!waiting for the next one@!!!@

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Dave S

Can’t get into this

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I have read about just over 100 pages and gives up on this book, I cannot make any sense of it, but that might just be me.

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Kirsty Syder

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 December 2022

A lovely evocation of a place, and how landscape and nature affects those who live in it. Interconnected stories with characters who feel real, with all the flaws and confused motivations of humanity. One to return to again and again.

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