Thomas Mogford

Back in the late 90s, I was a sports reporter for a university paper called ‘The Oxford Student’, a slightly downmarket, tabloid sister of the more established ‘Cherwell’ (and more entertaining for it, we hoped). The editor of the paper was one Katy Darby, who has since gone on to publish a blockbuster Victorian romp called ‘The Whores’ Asylum’, […]

The page proofs for ‘Sign of the Cross’ arrived by motorcycle courier today (basically the book as it will appear in proof form, but printed on A4 sheets of paper). The job now is to try and spot errors that can be ironed out for the actual book. Amazing to see a Word file reformatted this […]

The good times rolled last Saturday at the Thame Literary Festival. Incredibly friendly organising team escorted me and the brilliant Kay Langdale (http://www.kaylangdale.com/) onto the stage of the local church hall, where we were compassionately interviewed by Charlie Lee-Potter (check out her food blog — http://eggsontheroof.com/). Was delighted — at last — to be able to wear […]

‘Shadow of the Rock’ has upset the sensibility of the American website ‘Compass Book Ratings’. Formerly known as ‘Squeaky Clean Reads’, the site rates books in terms of suitability for different age groups, and has deemed ‘Shadow…’  for over- 21s only. The reviewer has painstakingly unearthed ‘9 religious exclamations; 6 mild obscenities; 3 religious profanities; 2 derogatory names; 7 scatological words; […]