21st-Century Yokel: Tom Cox - Hardcover

"Tom Cox is an enchanting companion in this modern romp through treasured landscapes. I laughed and learned on every page." (Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator and The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs)

"A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew . . . Cox's writing is loose-limbed, engaging and extremely funny, and time spent in his company is time very pleasantly spent." (Guardian)

"A wonderful, witty and moving collection of essays that, together, meander somewhere between nature writing, memoir and quiet polemic. As ever, Tom Cox’s musing and meditations are profound and playful; reflective and seriously readable, riffing on the difficulties of locating bat detectors in Argos one moment and painting heartbreaking eulogies to his Nan the next. A storyteller in entrancing form." (Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground)

"Like a British David Sedaris dedicated to a rural way of life, Tom Cox crafts funny and poignant stories out of observations and interactions – except his observations are of trees and his interactions are with squirrels." (AV Club)

"A hybrid of nature writing, memoir, and social history, it rambles, leisurely, through the English countryside, often pausing to ponder the relationship between people and place" (Observer)

A deeply personal and laugh-out-loud mixture of nature book and family memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Good, The Bad and The Furry