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Kate Mosse


Born
in West Sussex, The United Kingdom
October 20, 1961

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Genre
Fiction, Historical Fiction


Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. Her fiction includes the novels Labyrinth (2005), Sepulchre (2007), The Winter Ghosts (2009), and Citadel (2012), as well as an acclaimed collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales (2013). Kate’s new novel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter is out now.
Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. She lives in Sussex.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 188,792 ratings · 17,682 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
3.63 avg rating — 59,086 ratings — published 2005 — 142 editions
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Sepulchre (Languedoc, #2)
3.80 avg rating — 22,552 ratings — published 2007 — 111 editions
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The Burning Chambers (The J...
3.98 avg rating — 14,870 ratings — published 2018 — 54 editions
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The Winter Ghosts
3.49 avg rating — 16,371 ratings — published 2009 — 57 editions
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The Taxidermist's Daughter
3.75 avg rating — 13,428 ratings — published 2014 — 47 editions
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Citadel (Languedoc, #3)
3.98 avg rating — 10,696 ratings — published 2012 — 58 editions
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The City of Tears (The Joub...
4.24 avg rating — 7,415 ratings — published 2021 — 49 editions
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The Ghost Ship (The Joubert...
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The Map of Bones (The Joube...
4.23 avg rating — 2,513 ratings — published 2024 — 11 editions
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3.57 avg rating — 2,862 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions
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Series by Kate Mosse

Labyrinth Sepulchre Citadel
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The Burning Chambers The City of Tears The Ghost Ship The Map of Bones
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“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
tags: love
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“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”
― Kate Mosse, Labyrinth
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“For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
tags: ghosts, history, letter, writing
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