Join bestselling author and Founder Director of the Women’s Prizes, Kate Mosse, for a literary lunch on International Women’s Day (8 March) at Mount St. Restaurant, London.

Hosted in Mount St. Restaurant’s iconic Scottish Room, guests will enjoy a champagne reception followed by a two-course meal.

Main (a choice of)
Coronation chicken salad, soft boiled egg (df, gf)

Stepney smoked trout, salad of kohlrabi, chicory & apple, horseradish crème fraîche (v, vg, gf)

Heritage radish and fennel salad, tomesco & orange vinaigrette (vg, gf)

Dessert (a choice of)
Selection of British cheeses & Durslade Farm chutney (v)

Egg custard tart, rhubarb sorbet

Event timings:

12.15pm: Guest arrival – champagne reception

12.30pm: Welcome and introductions

1:00pm: Main course

1:45pm: Reading from Kate Mosse

2:00pm: Dessert and guest Q&A with Kate Mosse

2.30pm: Book signing

Food, drink and service is included in the ticket price. Guests will also receive a signed copy of Kate’s book, Feminist History for Every Day of the Year.

Tickets are £75, with all proceeds going towards our work as a registered charity, helping us to continue to amplify women’s stories, support emerging writers and ensure a more equitable literary world for future generations.

Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she is also the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is also a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library. She was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List 2024.