Ring the Hill

By Tom Cox£9.99 + Shipping
Status: published
Publication Date: 03.10.2019Available
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About The Book

'Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a knowledgeable, witty, engaging friend. Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects' Marian Keyes

A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked ‘Quite a Lot of Hills’ where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are.

Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill – whether it’s a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump – as a starting point for one of Tom’s characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations.

Tom’s lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.

'Sheer bloody genius . . . I loved it. Then I loved it more' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland

Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps
Stephen Fry

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