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Curious Events Lately Occurring in This Neighbourhood
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781066743407
Publisher: Breakthrough Books Collective Ltd
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Tom Cox has become one of the most reliably readable and enchanting (not to mention hilarious) writers around. Stephen Fry
I have genuinely laughed out loud... which is a big achievement by the writer as I am mostly miserable. An appreciative reader
The Immortal Executive Branch Manager Of Primordial Evil For Southwest Britain is experiencing a crippling crisis of confidence. Lucky, then, that Tom Cox is on hand to capture his plight in print.
Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood also features an erudite badger; a poet-prejudiced bookshop owner and his larcenous young apprentice; a worried businesswoman spying on her ex-husband from a tree; a mysterious stone that gives shocking insight into true identities, and many more surreal and humorous scenarios.
The second collection of short fiction from the Shirley Jackson Award-winning Tom Cox will take you on a wild ride through the portals of his psychedelic imagination. Into the kind of parallel worlds perhaps accessed through the hollow of an ancient tree... suddenly up-ended worlds holding up a warped mirror to our own.
You might even have the uncanny sensation that this follow up to Help The Witch has been carved from an enchanted piece of wood specifically for you.
From readers of this latest collection:
Well this is, unsurprisingly, tremendous. Tom Cox... consistently weird and funny. Ian Martin on Bluesky
Playful, uncanny, joyfully silly. Jan Hicks on Bluesky
Delicious. A psychedelic pick and mix. Helen Thompson on Substack
This is Peak Cox. I want to re-read it immediately. Red on Goodreads
What some other nice people say about Tom:
Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects. Marian Keyes
Marvellously inventive and imaginative. William Boyd
Made me laugh out loud. David Sedaris
A very funny writer. Kate Atkinson
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