Kate Mosse

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 and Other Haunting Tales (2013). In 2014 Kate's latest Sunday Times bestselling novel, The Taxidermist's Daughter was welcomed with widespread praise and glowing reviews. It was chosen as one of the WH Smith Richard and Judy Book Club selections for Autumn 2015.

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.