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21st Century Yokel
- Narrated by: Tom Cox
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of essays, but a bit of all six. It contains owls, badgers, ponies, beavers, otters, bats, bees, scarecrows, dogs, ghosts and yes, even a few cats. What emerges from this are themes that are broader, bigger and more definitive.
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- Sevilla
- 29-03-18
Another great book from Tom Cox
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My New Year resolution was to stop listening to the Today programme in the morning as it just wound me up for the rest of the day. This audiobook was the perfect antidote. Gentle tales of walks, folklore and family. Having Tom reading it brought the book to life, particularly the LOUD DAD sections. Didn’t want it to end.
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- C J Knill
- 15-01-18
wonderful book perfectly suited to audio format.
wonderful, nostalgic book perfectly suited to audio book format. read by the author. highly recommended.
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- Eve
- 22-10-18
Adored every moment
Simply adored every moment of this and will certainly listen again.
Tom speaks with such humour and warmth about nature, the British countryside, family, friends ...and cats.
It's the equivalent of, in audio book from, of a long walk in the country followed by curling up in your favourite armchair with hot chocolate, cheese on toast, a dog at your feet and a cat on your lap.
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- Ms S. barratt
- 02-04-18
Hugely enjoyable
I loved reading the book, and hearing it in Tom Cox's voice somehow adds another layer of enjoyment to it.
Recommended if you like any or all of: walking, nature, the sort of conversations that start on one topic and manage to cover lots of seemingly unrelated issues, lynx-related hypothetical mild peril.
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- K S Orton
- 04-03-19
Best book of the 21st Century
I’m sad, no the book didn’t make me sad. I’m sad now I’ve finished the book as I feel like I’ve lost a good friend.
If you like nature, random stories, people falling out of trees and sheep then this is the book for you!
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- Ben
- 23-03-23
Black Shuck
I saw what I believe was Black Shuck near Swanton Morley. I'd been to see two friends in Dereham for The Millennium New Year's Eve and was driving home about 2am in a light blue Metro. I saw a huge dog standing in the road staring right at me and braked, stopping about 10 yards from the beast. For some reason I weirdly thought to get out of the car to help it???! I briefly looked to my side door to get out and when I faced forward it was gone. the flat fields either side were moonlit and empty and nothing in the car lights. there was nowhere for the dog to have run to. The way it stood on an empty road so fearlessly made it other worldly. Great book mate, enjoyed it.
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- S. Collis
- 21-06-21
Just wonderful
Loved his style of narration, laconic and down to earth. He is such a good observer and writer. Didn't want it to end.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-05-21
meh
variously interesting and funny and then very dull with extremely lengthy monologues on the nature of the author's cats... not a bad book, but definitely more for crazy cat people than the general listener. a trudge to listen to from about half way through. I stopped listening altogether with almost two hours left. I'm just not that interested or invested in the lives of random people's cats.
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- kate Starkey
- 23-01-20
A love story to the British countryside
I really enjoyed this book, it’s different to any other. The way Tom talks about the countryside makes me desperate to get out on a good walk!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-04-24
Reminders if my Nana
A nice gentle trundle through the authors mind. Funny, poignant and thought provoking in equal measure. Recommended.
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