Kate Mosse returns to Faversham to share more tales of adventure, intrigue and courage set in southern Africa across the 17th to the 19th centuries. She talks to Steven Gale about The Map of Bones, the final part in her sweeping historical tale about the Huguenot Joubert clan.

Kate Mosse is the author of 11 novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles – The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel. Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. She has also written four works of non-fiction – including her memoir An Extra Pair of Hands, and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World.

Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction & the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world, and is the Founder of the global campaign #WomanInHistory launched in January 2021 to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements. She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List 2024 for services to literature, women and charity.

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