Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright and writer of history and memoir. The author of twelve novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), the No 1 bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones) and Gothic fiction The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts. She has written six highly-acclaimed non-fiction titles including An Extra Pair of Hands, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries, Feminist History for Every Day of the Year and her monograph on Sussex, Autumn:The Story of a Season comes out in September 2026. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign, Kate is also a trustee of the British Library, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours list 2024.