If you think you might have a tenner available at the beginning of March for a paperback (or under a fiver for an ebook) what you could do is pre-order SCRATCH MOSS today -- you won't be charged until it's shipped and if there are loads of pre-orders it'll make me look dead good. amzn.eu/d/d44qIuw

Inspector Madden on the case…

Happy Gauda Prime day to all who celebrate.

Big news from the world of Withered Hill

NEW. Will your energy provider pass on the Budget 1 April £150/yr price cut to ALL tariffs including fixes?... Here's our firm by firm round-up www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/12... including my full explanation of what's happening.

If you missed this week's Geek Grotto, where I talk about all the winners and reveals from this year’s Games Awards, the Listen On Demand is available here: www.mixcloud.com/bruthavoodoo...

At the beginning of the year I had to face up to the fact my ex-publishers were imploding & would never pay me what they owed me for the 7 books I wrote for them. It's been a battle. There's still a lot of repair work to be done. Bluesky has helped. If you bought one of these in 2025, thank you.

Moves…

An ancient underground race seemingly destroyed by UNIT decades ago. Now, in 2025, they rise again to clean up the planet. Coming soon to BBC1 and Disney+ 'The War Between Underground and Overground'. #DoctorWho Watch the prequel now, exclusive to Bluesky:

Tune! artillerysaints.bandcamp.com/track/contro...

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WIN! - a Norman World Exclusive copy of 'HAYWARDxDÄLEK' by HAYWARDxDÄLEK Like, share, and give our page a follow for the chance to win a copy of our limited exclusive of this class industrial hip-hop collab. @relapserecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2117...

New single, on Bandcamp from next Friday! youtu.be/9aYbPVzMyFQ?...

If anybody is at a loose end I have a stall upstairs at the cafe in Crystal Palace park this weekend.

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It's Black Friday. Boo. There are no discounts on our wonky football shop. We have however not raised our prices in 6 years, which feels like a long time when [gestures at everything] So yeah, ignore Amazon and buy something weird from somewhere small. Like us! Or someone else! 🛒 noscoredraws.com

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo. Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter. You might like it if you like: Walking Wildlife Folklore Bees Ghosts The Sea Social history Badgers

THREAD. How The Singer Julian Cope Licked My Entire Face And Hypnotised Me Into An Occult Life On The Margins Of Society I have been wanting to tell this true story - arguably the central one of my life - for many years. You will find it in the alt text to these very real documentary photographs.

FUCK IT. LET’S MAKE IT FOUR SIGNED HARDBACKS. Competition remains open until tomorrow am.

This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts You might like it if you like: Folklore Old buildings Friendship Records The power & magic of landscape ..

🤯 Track of the year? John Cale on fire.

OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned: youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

Waitrose need to pay him for the 600 hours he worked. Shameless. #Waitrose

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

The PM at work…

A cartoon by Barry Blitt.

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @jjstannard.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by Black Eyes (pictured), Eric Wetherell, GORZ, Andy Blade, @masmadreamworld.bsky.social and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Josh Sisk

REDUCED VINYL: Starting from just £2.49, vinyl is going cheap from , Torn Hawk, Sebastian Plano, Richard Thorncroft (Julian Barrett’s character from Mindhorn), Park Hye Jin, and Claud. www.normanrecords.com/backinstock

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

It’s October again so I should probably encourage you to buy my (award-winning!) folk horror novels.

No words…

"It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.” - Terry Pratchett (Snuff)

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The bugs are having one final hurrah as we head into Autumn. Before it gets too cold and we start missing them, our theme will be Bugs! Insects! Arachnids! Oh my! This #WyrdWednesday, send us your buggy tales, folklore, and art!

One for @hookland.bsky.social

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We are a DIY band - we record the music ourselves and make the videos too! Check out “Remember, They’re Mormons on all the streaming sites. You can of course buy it on the Bandcamp! Have a listen and tell me what you think!