Thomas Mogford

  Well, the deadline has passed, and we have ourselves a winner. As a reminder, the brief was as follows –  ‘In ‘Shadow of the Rock’, Spike Sanguinetti leaves Gibraltar to go to Morocco. In ‘Sign of the Cross’ he goes to Malta. Write up to 100 words on where in the Mediterranean he should go […]

The Writers’ Round Table event on Saturday turned out to be more of a long, narrow table on a stage in one of  Oxford’s hidden corners — a room off the Bodleian Library where Charles II used to assemble his parliament when it couldn’t meet in London. Having been born in Oxford, grown up outside, and (unimaginatively, perhaps) been […]

Much excitement today: UPS delivered a box of freshly minted copies of SIGN OF THE CROSS. Undeniable thrill in holding a physical book in your hand. Here is a snap of the box before our toddler son began manically unpacking it…

Red-letter day today as the contracts arrived in the post from Bloomsbury for Spike books 3 and 4. Am currently 20,000 words into Spike 3 –can reveal it is set wholly in Gibraltar, but otherwise… work in progress. Needless to say, I signed on the dotted line with undignified haste and posted the envelope back this afternoon…