Thomas Mogford

Smoking kills, as the saying goes. But vaping? No one’s quite sure, but the experts seem to think it’s a better bet than the hard stuff. Or so I told myself when I made the switch. But vaping can be pretty expensive. One way to save money is to recharge your own e-cigarettes. And the […]

One of the joys of writing (and reading) fiction is to be able to immerse yourself in someone else’s thought process. The Spike books are told mainly from Spike Sanguinetti’s perspective, so for some years now I have had to pretend to be a Gibraltarian lawyer in his late thirties with a big heart and […]

Tomorrow I set off for Boston (USA, not Lincolnshire), where one of my oldest friends is getting married. I’ve been tasked with speech-making duties, so today I hit pause on Spike Book 5, and set my mind towards coming up with a pithy 5-minute summary of the groom. I’ve recently had warnings, not from the […]

My wife and I alternate the early shift with our two young children, and it’s often quite a manic time. Usually, though, there’s a brief moment to scan the online news — often a fairly depressing business, as you realise you’ve just dedicated your window of respite to reading a grisly news story, or another […]