Thomas Mogford

Very excited to be appearing at this year’s Belfast Book Festival — 11 June, 7pm, at the unrivalled ‘No Alibis’ bookshop. Talking alongside Claire McGowan, a fellow Radio 4 ‘Front Row’ crime pick (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l0dpg ), whose first novel, THE FALL, I have just ordered and can’t wait to read. The brilliant Dave Torrans asking the questions…. Tickets free, but […]

These early readers are actually on a tube train. The Mediterranean atmosphere of ‘Sign of the Cross’ can have that effect…

  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 […]