Kate Mosse Novels

Kate Mosse

Born
20 October 1961

Occupation
Author

Nationality
English

Genres
Fantasy
Debut works
Eskimo Kissing

Spouse
Greg Mosse

Children
Martha Mosse, Felix Mosse

Kate Mosse (born 20 October 1961) is an English author and broadcaster. She is the author of a commercial fiction marvel, Labyrinth, that has been translated into more than 37 other languages.

Early Life
Kate was born in West Sussex. She was educated at Chichester High School and New College, Oxford. She first met Greg Mosse in her school and then they came across each other in a train after twenty years. After graduating she spent seven years in publishing.

Later Life And Career
In 1996 she published her first novel, Eskimo Kissing, about a young, adopted woman searching for her background. This was followed in 1998 by the thriller Crucifix Lane. From 1998 up to 2001, she held her post as the executive director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Meanwhile she also remained engaged in reserch work for her up-coming novel. In 2005 she had international success with her novel, Labyrinth, an adventure story set both in the Middle Ages and the present.

She is the television presenter of the BBC Four literary chat show, Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and a well-known figure in the media. In 1996 she co-founded the annual Orange Prize for Fiction, of which she is also the Honorary Director. In 2000 she was named European Woman of Achievement for her contribution to the arts.

In 2006 Kate Mosse won a British Book Award for Labyrinth in the category "Richard & Judy's Best Read".

In October 2007 she released her latest novel, Sepulchre.

Kate married Greg. She first met Greg Mosse in her school and then they came across each other in a train after twenty years. After this second meeting, they decided to be life partners of each other. Kate Mosse now lives with her husband, Greg Mosse and her children, Martha and Felix, in West Sussex and Carcassonne.

Labyrinth
July 2005.

In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

Sepulchre
October 2007

A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the author of LABYRINTH

October 1891: A young girl, Léonie Vernier, and her brother, Anatole, are invited to leave the gas-lit streets of Paris and travel south to a mysterious country house - La Domaine de la Cade - near Carcassonne. There, in the ancient, dark woods, Leonie comes across a ruined sepulchre and is drawn into a century's old mystery of murder, ghosts and a strange set of tarot cards that seem to hold enormous power over life and death.

October 2007: Meredith Martin decides to take a break from her research trip in Paris - where she is studying Claude Debussy - and head down south to a beautiful hotel in the woods. She becomes fascinated by the history of the place and particularly by the tragic events of one Halloween night more than a century before that shocked the small community. Thus her fate becomes entwined with that of Leonie. But it is only when she too stumbles over a secluded glade in the forest that she realises that the secrets it contains are far from dead and buried…A haunting mystery of revenge and obsession, set against the rich backdrop of southern France, SEPULCHRE is the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of LABYRINTH.