Kate Mosse is a best-selling British author of novels, short story collections and non-fiction, including the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth (2005), Sepulchre (2007) and Citadel (2010). Her work has been published in more than 40 countries. She is also the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction – the largest annual celebration of women’s writing in the world – and sits on the Executive Committee of Women of the World. In 2021 she started the global campaign – #WomanInHistory – to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements throughout history.
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Labyrinth
Three secrets. Two women. One Grail … July 1209: in Carcassonne a 17-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe … July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she’s disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past – her past – has been revealed.
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
By Ann Radcliffe
Recommended by: Kate Mosse
Publish Date: 1794
Set in France and Italy in the late 16th century, this gothic novel centres on Emily St. Aubert, a young woman who loses her father and is taken in by her aunt and her husband, the evil nobleman Montoni. Montoni…
King Solomon’s Mines
By H. Rider Haggard
Recommended by: Kate Mosse
Publish Date: 1885
Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend – and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near…
Affinity
By Sarah Waters
Recommended by: Kate Mosse
Publish Date: 1999
Set in and around the women’s prison at Milbank in the 1870s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following…
