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About Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is the international No 1 bestselling and award-winning author of thirteen novels, six works of history and memoir and five plays, and Founder Director of Women’s Prize for Fiction & Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Twenty years ago, her game-changing Grail adventure, Labyrinth, became a multi-million copy global bestseller. Translated into thirty-eight languages and adapted into a Ridley Scott television series, its modern conspiracy story, interwoven with a captivating and evocative slice of French history, helped readers fall in love with Carcassonne and continues to resonate today. Borderlands is her first medieval/modern timeslip novel since Labyrinth, and will introduce readers to the mysterious and intriguing le Mont Saint-Michel on the eve of the Norman Conquest of England and the present day.
Awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List 2024 for services to literature, women and charity, Kate Mosse is a visiting professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Literature at the University of Chichester and a Trustee of the British Library.
Complete Bibliography
Fiction
Eskimo Kissing (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996 – not in print)
Crucifix Lane (Hodder & Stoughton, 1998 – not in print)
Labyrinth (Book I Languedoc Trilogy, Orion, 2005)
Sepulchre (Book II Languedoc Trilogy, Orion, 2007)
The Winter Ghosts (Orion, 2009)
Citadel (Book III Languedoc Trilogy, Orion, 2012)
The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales (short stories, Orion, 2013)
The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Orion, 2014)
The Burning Chambers (Book I, The Joubert Family Chronicles, Mantle, 2018)
The City of Tears (Book 2, The Joubert Family Chronicles, Mantle, 2021)
The Black Mountain (Quick Reads, Macmillan 2022)
The Ghost Ship (Book 3, The Joubert Family Chronicles, Mantle 2023)
The Map of Bones (Book 4, The Joubert Family Chronicles, Mantle 2024)
Non Fiction
Becoming a Mother (Virago, 1993)
The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (BBC Books, 1995)
Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty (Unbound, 2012)
An Extra Pair of Hands (Wellcome Collection, 2021)
Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World (Mantle, 2022)
Feminist History for Every Day of the Year (Illustrated by Sophie Bass), (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2025)
Autumn The Story of a Season (Hodder, 2026)
Plays
Syrinx (2009; printed version in The Mistletoe Bride, Orion 2013)
Endpapers (Oberon Books, 2011)
The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Nick Hearn Books, 2022)
The Queen of Jerusalem (2024)
Essays, Short Stories & Other Writings
Little Black Dress (story – edited by Susie Maguire, Polygon, 2006)
The Fishbourne Book (introduction – FBG, 2006)
Modern Delight (essay – Waterstones/Faber and Faber, 2009)
Midsummer Nights (story – edited by Jeanette Winterson, Quercus, 2009)
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (introduction – Vintage Classics,2009)
Introduction to The Writers’ & Artists Yearbook 2009 (introduction – A&C Black, 2009)
The Book Lovers’ Appreciation Society (story – edited by Fanny Blake, Orion 2009)
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (introduction – Serpent’s Tail, 2010)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (introduction – Whites Book, 2010)
The Best Little Book Club in Town (story – edited by Fanny Blake, Orion, 2011)
Why Willows Weep (story – edited by Tracy Chevalier, 2011)
Write (essay – Guardian Books, 2012)
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming (introduction – Vintage Classics, 2012)
Night Falls on the City by Sarah Gainham (introduction – Little Brown, 2012)
The Coffee Shop Book Club (story – edited by Fanny Blake, Orion, 2013)
Virago at 40 (story – edited by Lennie Goodings, 2013)
Fifty Shades of Feminism (essay – edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes & Susie Orbach, Virago, 2013)
A Chichester Miscellany by Phil Hewitt (foreword – Summersdale Publishing, 2013)
Chichester Harbour: England’s Coastal Gem by Liz Sagues (foreword – Robert Hale, 2013)
One Hundred Great Plays by Women by Lucy Kerbel (foreword – Nick Hern Books, 2013)
Writing Historical Fiction (essay – edited by Celia Brayfield and Duncan Sprott, Bloomsbury, 2014)
Anthology of World War I Literature for Children (essay – edited by Michael Morpurgo, Jonathan Cape, 2014)
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (afterword – Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2014)
Only Remembered (story – edited by Michael Morpurgo, Jonathan Cape, 2014)
Eleven Days (BBC Worldwide, 2015)
The Little Prince (introduction – Picador Classics, 2015)
I am Heathcliff (introduction & curator – Borough Press, 2018)
The Turn of the Screw & Owen Wingrave (afterword – Picador Classics, 2018)
Peter Abelard by Helen Waddell (introduction – Bello, 2018)
This is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers on turning Crisis Into Change edited by the Feminist Book Society, And Other Stories, £14.99
Fire Down Below by William Golding (Introduction, Faber – 2022)
The Mystery of the Acid Soil (a Miss Marple Short Story, HarperCollins, 2022)
Marple: Twelve New Stories (HarperCollins, 2022)
Sherlock (Short story, Simon & Schuster UK, 2026)