The Map of Bones

Kate Mosse is an international best-selling novelist, non-fiction writer and playwright. Her ten novels and short story collections, include The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship) – as well as the multi-million selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel) and Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts. The author of four plays – including an adaptation of her novel The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which opened the 60th Anniversary Season at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022 – she is currently working on a major history play.  The Founder Director of the Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction, Kate is a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing & Contemporary Literature at the University of Chichester and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Her latest novel, A Map of Bones is set in 17th century South Aftrica and is the fourth and concluding novel of the Joubert family chronicles. It tells the story of Suzanne Joubert’s quest to follow in the footsteps of her cousin, Louise Reydon-Joubert, pirate and commander of the Ghost Ship, who disappeared more than 60 years before.

Suzanne has come to find her and lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems…

Kate will be interviewed by Barnes Literary Society Chair, Sue Pandit.