Kate Mosse

1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. But in a world where the enemy now lies in every shadow - where neighbour informs on neighbour; where friends disappear without warning and often without trace - love can demand the highest price of all.

Rasche Schnittfolge: Im Juli 2005 entdeckt Dr. Alice Tanner bei Ausgrabungen in Südfrankreich einen versteckten Höhleneingang. Darinnen, zwei Skelette, ein Ring mit eingraviertem Labyrinth. Dann wirds zappenduster und sehr mystisch! Einige Kilometer weiter in Carcasonne sieht ein alter Mann die Lösung eines uralten Rätsels gekommen. Ein geheimes Tunnelsystem unter den Gassen der mittelalterlichen Stadt Chartres. Glöckchen bimmeln, Mönche brummen. In einem unheimlichen Ritual mit Kapuzenmännern und einer Hohepriesterin werden wir Zeugen der Hinrichtung eines Verräters. Ein Stein mit eingraviertem Labyrinth rollt zu Boden! Alice, inzwischen auf dem Weg ins Wunderland, wird durch Raum und Zeit geschleudert wie weiland Dorothy im Lande Oz. Ein dünnes, jenseitiges Stimmchen ertönt: Alaïs ... Alaïs! -- Ende der Fahrt! Alles aussteigen! Wir sind in Carcassona angekommen, man schreibt den Juli 1209! Nach diesem furiosen Vorspiel bremst Kate Mosse ihre labyrinthische Gral-Saga abrupt ab. Geschichtsstunde: Die „Chevaliers“ aus Carcassona und Umgebung sind beunruhigt. Eine riesige Kreuzritterarmee hat sich im Norden formiert, bereit, auf Geheiß Papst Innozenz III. das Languedoc von den Katharern zu befreien, einer christlichen Sekte, die der katholischen Kirche ein Dorn im Auge ist. Alaïs, eine junge Heilerin und Pflanzensammlerin, gerät ins Zentrum des Geschehens, als sie in den Besitz des „Buchs der Wörter“, gerät, dem Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Heiligen Grals.

Sussex, 1912. Een kustgebied in de ban van storm en springtij, waar bijgeloof nog een grote rol speelt. Constantia ­Gifford is zeventien en woont met haar vader in hun ­vervallen landhuis, tussen de schamele resten van zijn voormalige museum vol opgezette dieren. Zijn ambacht is uit de tijd geraakt en Gifford is een onsympathieke, verbitterde man geworden. Volgens lokale folklore is één nacht per jaar op het kerkhof te zien wie er zal sterven. Bij de eerste slag van de kerkklok richten alle blikken zich op de kerk. Niemand ziet dat er een stuk steen opgeraapt wordt. Als de laatste slag wegsterft, ligt er een vrouw dood op de grond. Als Constantia probeert uit te vinden wie de moordenaar is, wordt ze zelf als verdachte aangemerkt. Is ze een slachtoffer van de omstandigheden of zijn er duistere krachten aan het werk? En welk geheim ligt er in het huis verborgen, tussen de stolpen van Giffords werkplaats?

Een oude priester, op brute wijze om het leven gebracht. Een ontzield lichaam van een jonge man in de rivier de Aude. Een nerveuze vrouw in een kamer met damasten gordijnen. Een lachende man in de schaduw. Twee vrouwen uit verschillende tijden en plaatsen raken verwikkeld in het mysterie dat deze mensen samenbrengt: de tarotkaarten die zij in hun handen houden... De vergeten tombe is een episch avontuur waarin de lezer wordt meegenomen van het hedendaagse Rennes-les-Bains naar het negentiende-eeuwse Rennes-le-Chateau, maar ook naar lang voorbije tijden waarin koningen werden begraven met hun schatten. Een intrigerend verhaal over spookachtige muziek, moordende hebzucht en eeuwenoude geheimen.

In de winter van 1928 reist de jonge Frederick Abraham door een verlaten gebied in Frankrijk. Al jaren wordt hij achtervolgd door de dood van zijn broer, die is omgekomen in de loopgraven van Vlaanderen. Nu heeft hij zelf de leeftijd bereikt waarop zijn broer stierf en is hij op de vlucht voor zijn verleden. Als Frederick in een sneeuwstorm terechtkomt, zoekt hij onderdak in een klein dorpje. Ondanks de ijzige kou hebben de dorpelingen zich in traditionele klederdracht gehuld en maken ze zich op voor een jaarlijks dorpsfeest. Frederick voelt zich aangetrokken tot een prachtige vrouw, met wie hij zich eindelijk weer gelukkig voelt. Maar als de volgende dag aanbreekt is de vrouw verdwenen. Frederick besluit naar haar op zoek te gaan in de bergen, langs paden die al eeuwen worden bewandeld door de dood, op plekken waar het verleden nog lang niet voorbij is…

Juli 2005: Bij archeologische opgravingen aan de voet van de Pyreneeën ontdekt Alice Tanner twee eeuwenoude skeletten. Het zijn niet alleen de oude botten die haar een onprettig gevoel geven, de gehele tombe straalt een overweldigende, kwaadaardige kracht uit. Wanneer ook de politie zich met de vondst bemoeit, besluit Alice om op eigen houtje naspeuringen te doen en stuit ze op zeer merkwaardige zaken…Juli 1209: 800 jaar eerder in Carcasonne, aan de vooravond van de beestachtige kruistocht die de Languedoc uit elkaar zal rijten, krijgt de 16-jarige Alaïs een mysterieus boek van haar vader, dat volgens zijn zeggen het geheim van de heilige graal herbergt. Verlies, intrige, geweld en passie bepalen voortaan haar leven terwijl ze vecht tegen de ongebroken boze kracht van haar tegenstander. Tot het noodlot haar, net als Alice, naar dezelfde grot voert, waar alles beslist zal worden…

16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In Terminus a young woman hides in an empty Brighton hotel; in Thicker Than Blood a man sits in a hot tub stalking his newly-married love on social media; and in A Bird Half-Eaten an amateur boxer prepares for a match. A woman recalls the Heathcliffs I Have Known and the physical danger she has borne at their hands; in Anima a child and a fox are unified in one startling moment of violence; and in One Letter Different two teenagers walk the moors and face up to their respective buried secrets. Curated by Kate Mosse and commissioned for Emily Brontë’s bicentenary year in 2018, these fresh, modern stories pulse with the raw beauty and pain of love and are as timely as they are illuminating. The full list of contributors is:Leila Aboulela, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Joanna Cannon, Alison Case, Juno Dawson, Louise Doughty, Sophie Hannah, Anna James, Erin Kelly, Dorothy Koomson, Grace McCleen, Lisa McInerney, Laurie Penny, Nikesh Shukla, Michael Stewart and Louisa Young.

In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

July 1209: in Carcassonne, a seventeen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alaïs cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe... July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed by something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealed.

Carcasona, tierra de cátaros, 1562. La joven católica Minou Joubert recibe una carta anónima sellada con el emblema de una poderosa saga, sólo cinco palabras:ELLA SABE QUE ESTÁS VIVA.Antes de que Minou pueda descifrar el misterioso mensaje, el destino le pondrá delante al joven converso Piet Reydon, que cambiará su destino para siempre. Piet tiene una peligrosa misión, y la necesita para salir vivo de La Cité. Y mientras, la fractura entre religiones se hace cada día más profunda, las líneas de batalla se tiñen de sangre y las conspiraciones están a la orden del día. La misteriosa señora del Castillo de Puivert, espera el momento perfecto para atacar...

In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde-and the Domain-are not what Léonie had imagined. The villagers claim that Isolde's late husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside. A book from the Domain's cavernous library describes the strange tarot pack that mysteriously disappeared following the uncle's death. But while Léonie delves deeper into the ancient mysteries of the Domain, a different evil stalks her family-one which may explain why Léonie and Anatole were invited to the sinister Domain in the first place. More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study the life of Claude Debussy, the nineteenth century French composer. In Rennesles-Bains, Meredith checks into a grand old hotel-the Domain de la Cade. Something about the hotel feels eerily familiar, and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt Meredith's waking hours. A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Léonie Vernier, which may hold the key to this twenty-first century American's fate . . . just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier more than a century earlier.

Augustus 1572. Minou Joubert en haar familie zijn in Parijs voor een koninklijke bruiloft. Het huwelijk tussen Margaretha, de zuster van de katholieke koning Karel IX, en de protestantse hugenoot Hendrik van Navarra is bedoeld om vrede te brengen in Frankrijk na een decennium van religieuze oorlogen. De hele stad loopt uit, en van heinde en verre zijn mensen gekomen om het feest mee te vieren. Maar ook Vidal, een oude vijand van Minou, is naar de hoofdstad getrokken. En wat een week vol feestelijkheden had moeten worden mondt binnen enkele dagen uit tot een grote moordpartij, waarna de straat bezaaid is met duizenden doden. Minous familie slaat op de vlucht, en moet zich noodgedwongen verspreiden over de vier windstreken. Een aangrijpende, adembenemende roman over wraak, onderdrukking en verlies. Het verhaal neemt ons mee naar Parijs, Chartres en naar de Stad van tranen zelf: Amsterdam.

The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream... 1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. And in the shadows, a woman lies dead. As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years...

The Black Mountain is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Kate Mosse. It is May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend says has the devil living inside it. However, there has been no eruption for thousands of years and no one believes it is a threat. One day, Ana notices that the air feels strange and heavy, that the birds have stopped singing. Tending the family vineyard, a sudden strange tremor in the earth frightens her. Very soon it will be a race against time for Ana to help persuade the town that they are in danger and should flee before the volcano erupts and destroys their world. Will they listen? And Ana herself faces another danger . . .

Power and Prejudice: France, 1562. War sparks between the Catholics and Huguenots, dividing neighbors, friends, and family--meanwhile, nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: She knows that you live. Love and Betrayal: Before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, she meets a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon. Piet has a dangerous task of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to stay alive. Soon, they find themselves on opposing sides, as forces beyond their control threaten to tear them apart. Honor and Treachery: As the religious divide deepens, Minou and Piet find themselves trapped in Toulouse, facing new dangers as tensions ignite across the city--and a feud that will burn across generations begins to blaze. . .

It is March 1928. The Great War has been over for ten years, but Freddie still hasn't recovered from the loss of his brother. Even now, on holiday in south-west France, he cannot escape his grief. When his car crashes, Freddie stumbles down the hills to a village nearby. There he meets Marie, a beautiful young woman, who is also mourning a lost generation. Her story of the fate of her family moves him deeply. But it will also lead him to the caves above the village - and to the heart of a shocking secret.

Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.Alliances and RomanceAugust 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots. Loyalty and DeceptionAlso in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change the course of history. Revenge and PersecutionWithin days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the street, and Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds . . .

Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse returns with The Ghost Ship , a sweeping historical epic of adventure on the high seas. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship . For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape their fate? A sweeping and epic love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the high seas.

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to hide for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears , The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author Kate Mosse. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. The stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape their fate? A sweeping and epic love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas.

A sweeping and epic story of adventure and hardship, injustice and triumph, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Ghost Ship, and the fourth — and final — novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles.Olifantshoek, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, is here to walk in her cousin’s footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, the notorious she-captain and pirate commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years ago, then disappeared from the record as if she had never existed. Suzanne has come to find her — to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems . . .Franschhoek, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family — Isabelle Lepard — has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is not only going to discover the truth but escape with her life . . .

Rooted in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc, here are tales of ghosts and spirits seeking revenge, grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.

Rooted in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc, here are tales of ghosts and spirits seeking revenge, grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At 17, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed animals that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead. While the village braces itself against rising waters and the highest tide of the season, Connie struggles to discover who is responsible, but finds herself under suspicion. Is Constantia who she seems - is she the victim of circumstances or are more sinister forces at work? And what is the secret that lies at the heart of Gifford House, hidden among the bell jars of her father's workshop? Told over one summer, The Taxidermist's Daughter is the haunting new novel from the bestselling author of Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel and The Winter Ghosts.

By the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Labyrinth," a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic, centuries-old mystery, and discovered his own role in the life of this remote town.

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women’s history, and of how and why women’s achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women’s struggles to be heard, about how history is made and by whom. Split into ten sections, each covering a different category of women’s achievements in history, Kate Mosse tells the stories of female inventors and scientists, philanthropists and conservationists, authors and campaigners. It is the most accessible narrative non-fiction with a genuinely diverse, truly global perspective featuring names such as Sophie Scholl, Mary Seacole, Cornelia Sorabji, Helen Suzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Violette Szabo. And in deeply personal passages Kate writes about the life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, where she turns detective to find out why she has all but disappeared from the record.

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women’s history, and of how and why women’s achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women’s struggles to be heard, about how history is made and by whom. Split into ten sections, each covering a different category of women’s achievements in history, Kate Mosse tells the stories of female inventors and scientists, philanthropists and conservationists, authors and campaigners. It is the most accessible narrative non-fiction with a genuinely diverse, truly global perspective featuring names such as Sophie Scholl, Mary Seacole, Cornelia Sorabji, Helen Suzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Violette Szabo. And in deeply personal passages Kate writes about the life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, where she turns detective to find out why she has all but disappeared from the record.