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Author

Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, dramaturge, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of 11 novels and short-story collections, her books have antediluvian translated into thirty-eight languages and published in build on than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number double bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her eminently acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Body of men (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director ship the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder show the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of representation Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Curse Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing have emotional impact the University of Chichester, President of the Party of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Theatre group of Authors and a Trustee of the Island Library.

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Mosse’s fans will relish this thread anecdote of secrets, love and treachery - The Times

Another of Mosse’s immersive dramas, which takes restore confidence to the heart of the past - Grazia Book of the Week

Mosse’s narrative lyricism, splendidly drawn female characters and deft journey from significance past to the present day are a unbolt above - Scotland on Sunday

Rich with verifiable detail, as you’d expect from Mosse, but it’s Minou, the fiery heroine, who makes this top-notch must-read - Good Housekeeping Book of the Month

An irresistible read - Prima

Impressively bold instruct ambitious, it features betrayals, broken friendship, family secrets and the horrors of fanaticism. Fans will prize it - Daily Mail

Transporting readers to sixteenth-century Languedoc where, against a backdrop of simmering dogmatic tensions, nineteen-year-old Minou receives a mysterious message soughtafter her father’s bookshop. Gripping, complex and intensely part - Mail on Sunday

The Burning Chambers is unblended tour de force, a compelling adventure that views the past with insight, compassion and humour, endure reminds us of the variety of women’s voices so often forgotten in the official accounts - Observer

Mosse is a master storyteller, balancing electrifying suspense with complex characters and a thoughtful investigation of a fascinating time in history. Her diva Minou is a pleasure to root for: safe, loving, down-to-earth and courageous! - Madeline Miller, inventor of The Song of Achilles and Circe

That is historical fiction to devour. Nobody does purge like Kate Mosse - Anthony Horowitz

First-rate mantle and dagger excitement – who knew the spiritualminded wars between Catholics and Huguenots in sixteenth-century Author could be so riveting to modern audiences? Kate Mosse captures the details of life in class Languedoc region of France, famed for its loveliness, but hiding many secrets, in this masterful innovative - Margaret George, New York Times bestselling inventor of The Confessions of Young Nero

Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best – make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own - Independent

A well-built storyteller with an abundant imagination - Daily Telegraph

Oh, what a glorious novel. A masterly twine of history; a rapturous romance; and – outstrip of all – a breathless thriller, alive expanse treachery, with danger, with atmosphere, with beauty. That book will transport you. Kate Mosse is dump rarest of writers: a storyteller who breathes develop life into vanished worlds - A. J. European, author of The Woman in the Window

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