Notebook

Tom Cox

ISBN 10: 1783529725 / ISBN 13: 9781783529728

Published by Unbound 9-Aug-22, 2021

About this Item

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. irst Edition/First Printing. An unread copy, signed 'To Dan, Watch out for unusual horses at your doorl! Tom Cox' to the title page.

Seller Inventory # 9781783529728

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notebook
• Publisher: Unbound 9-Aug-22
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783529725
• ISBN 13: 9781783529728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 0.556 pounds
• Signed: Inscribed by author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir
  • Humor

About this title

Synopsis

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen? 

The story behind Notebook starts with a minor crime: the theft of Tom Cox's rucksack from a Bristol pub in 2018. In that rucksack was a journal containing ten months worth of notes, one of the many Tom has used to record his thoughts and observations over the past twelve years. It wasn't the best he had ever kept – his handwriting was messier than in his previous notebook, his entries more sporadic – but he still grieved for every one of the hundred or so lost pages. This incident made Tom appreciate how much notebook-keeping means to him: the act of putting pen to paper has always led him to write with an unvarnished, spur-of-the-moment honesty that he wouldn’t achieve on-screen. 

Here, Tom has assembled his favourite stories, fragments, moments and ideas from those notebooks, ranging from memories of his childhood to the revelation that 'There are two types of people in the world. People who fucking love maps, and people who don't.' The result is a book redolent of the real stuff of life, shot through with Cox’s trademark warmth and wit.

About the Author

Tom Cox lives in Norfolk. 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