Thomas Mogford

Saturday, 9 July 2016 A Day in the Life of @ThomasMogford #BritCrime ‘Day in the life’ articles often seem to start with suspiciously early rises (‘The alarm sounds at 5am and I flip on the Gaggia…’). In my case, however, such statements are sadly legitimate. Not through any puritanical work ethic – I’d go the […]

Usually, you’d expect the younger generation to want to shake things up, whilst the older cleaves hard to the status quo. To my mind, the strangest thing about the build-up towards the EU referendum is that it has felt like the reverse. Somehow, the ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ model has sprung to life, millions of sensible Saffies […]

After the computer difficulties of the previous book deadline (see posting below) some kind of mechanical failure was always on my mind for this one. But fearing something and it coming to pass are not usually the same thing. Indeed, many people (myself included) suffer from an irrational delusion that if they worry about something […]

The city of Saranda, seen on the approach from Corfu As a London-based writer of crime novels set in the Mediterranean, I’ve had to develop a system when it comes to research. Usually I start with a location I know well, in the hope that if I love it, the reader will too. Then I […]