Thomas Mogford

I first met Sarah Ward six years ago, when she was working as a book blogger, reviewing countless crime novels, and specialising in Scandinavian noir in particular. Unbeknownst to those she was so sensitively reviewing, Sarah was also plotting her own crime series, which is now well underway (4 novels and counting), and has been […]

This is certainly one of the stranger emails I’ve received through this venerable website — ‘Hi Tom, I had a very odd dream last night where I met the man of my dreams. In the dream this man called himself Cat. At the end of my dream I asked why he was called Cat and […]

Freshers’ Week is a time for mistakes, and one of mine was to sign up for the university Wine Society. I’d hoped for decadent evenings spent quaffing fine wines from cobwebbed vaults; instead, we gathered in a strip-lit seminar room listening to a postgraduate pontificate on his favourite grape, receiving barely a thimbleful for our […]

As someone who has to watch a LOT of cartoons these days — I even caught My Little Pony: The Movie last weekend; not too shabby in fact; stirring theme song — I suddenly remembered an animated sequence that was made of Shadow of the Rock. The Gibraltar-based company that put it together, Wright Tech […]