Thomas Mogford

When I mentioned to a friend that I was travelling to France to learn about gin, she shot me a withering look: ‘You may as well go there to learn about cricket.’ When I added that this gin was made from grapes rather than grain, and produced in Cognac, she just raised her eyebrows and […]

Thoroughly enjoying watching ‘Big Little Lies’ at the moment – I feel it’s ideally savoured with a mild hangover, just to intensify the dark strands running through it. After observing both my wife and mum avidly reading ‘The Dry’ over the summer holidays, and having just heard that ‘The Cry’ has been green-lit as a […]

There’s a lot to be said for celebrating your favourite fictional sleuth through the medium of food and drink. My wife and I spent part of our honeymoon on the Orient Express, sipping dainty little glasses of crème de menthe in homage to Hercule Poirot, gazing about the dining car and wondering which of our […]

I’m a firm believer in the Latin phrase, ‘Solvitur ambulando’; ‘It solves itself by walking’. Whenever I get stuck on a tricky bit of plotting, I close down my computer and step out onto the streets of Battersea. I tend to take the same route each time, one that’s specially devised to get a crimewriter’s […]