Kate Mosse is an internationally best-selling novelist, short story writer, playwright, non-fiction author and interviewer. Her ten novels include the multi-million selling The Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship) and Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which she has adapted for the stage, and The Winter Ghosts. Her non-fiction includes the feminist history Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries – which inspired her one-woman theatre show – and a highly-acclaimed memoir about caring, An Extra Pair of Hands. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she chairs the judging panel for the unpublished writing programme ‘Discoveries’, is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester.
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