About
Thomas Mogford is the author of Shadow of the Rock, Sign of the Cross, Hollow Mountain, Sleeping Dogs and A Thousand Cuts.
After graduating with First Class honours in Medieval and Modern Languages from Oxford University, Thomas went on to work for ITV, further exploring a love of languages by travelling to Japan and Korea, then Germany, to cover the FIFA World Cups. After switching career and studying Law as a postgraduate at City University, London, he embarked on a series of legal thrillers set in Gibraltar and the wider Mediterranean.
The first novel in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the Rock, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. The latest, A Thousand Cuts, is out now.
Thomas’s journalism has featured in the Guardian, Time Out and easyJet Traveller Magazine. His short fiction has been published in Litro, The Field and Notes from the Underground, and been longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize.
Thomas also writes historical fiction under the name T.L. Mogford. The Plant Hunter was published in the UK on 17 February 2022, and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
He is currently at work on a new novel set in the world of the 17th-century English saffron industry.
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