Thomas Mogford

Writers, like footballers, are known for being fairly special when it comes to egos. Like most readers, if I love a book, I will root around for information about the writer’s life. All too often, the results chime with the ‘Never meet your heroes’ mantra – volcanic tempers, dumped spouses, neglected children. Not always, of […]

Below is an article that the ‘Gibraltar Chronicle’ ran in their print edition back in August. Shows how the crime genre is booming on the Rock… —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— People come to the Rock for many things, but literary inspiration has not always been chief among them. Yet literature permeates Gibraltar, from the earliest mythology – Hercules […]

It was like a scene out of a bad techno-movie. Two days before the contractual deadline for Spike Book 4, I opened up the Word file for some last minute tinkering and saw that the letter ‘h’ was not typing properly. Odd, I thought, as the cursor started to blink in a strange, blurry way. Then […]

Alas, the brief for this allowed only five ways to get under the skin of Gibraltar. I wanted to add another ‘crime-writer-undercover’ tip, namely that it’s best to write research notes on your mobile phone — that way people assume you’re sending a particularly long text, rather than jotting down what you see in front of you. […]