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Tom Cox (born May 20th, 1975) is a British humour writer, 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 The 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, due in January 2011, is a comic memoir detailing further encounters cats and other animals. 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 in Norfolk, and currently writes columns respectively on TV and golf for the Mail On Sunday and The Financial Times.
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- 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 And Schuster)
- Talk To The Tail (2011, Simon And Schuster)
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