Kate Mosse CBE is an international bestselling novelist, non-fiction writer, essayist and playwright. With sales of more than 8 million copies worldwide, her books have been translated into 37 languages and published in 40 countries. Her fiction includes the  Languedoc trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel), two gothic novels (The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter) and ‘The Joubert Family Chronicle’s series: The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones. She has also written a highly-acclaimed memoir about caring, An Extra Pair of Hands, and an alternative feminist history, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. She will publish her first YA book, Feminist History for Every Day of the Year, in autumn 2025. Kate was chair of the inaugural judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (then the Orange Prize) in 1996, and is now the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. She is also a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing and Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library. She was awarded a CBE in 2024 for services to literature, women and charity.