Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, interviewer and non-fiction writer. Author of 11 novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles and No. 1 best-selling Gothic novels, including The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts. Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, which inspired her one-woman theatre touring show.

The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – the world’s largest annual literary awards celebrating writing by woman – Kate is also the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library. A Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester, she was awarded a CBE in the 2024 New Year’s Honours List.

Top Titles

• Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel)
• The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones)
• Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World (2022)