Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and nonfiction writer. The author of ten 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 Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, and The Map of Bones--and the standalone novels The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter. Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign, and has her own monthly YouTube book show, Mosse on a Monday. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester.