Kate Mosse is beloved for her epic historical fiction books, including The Joubert Family Chronicles and Languedoc series.
Kate Mosse is the award-winning author of novels, short story collections, essays, non-fiction, and a much-loved playwright. Her books include the multimillion-selling Languedoc trilogy which begins with the unmissable Labyrinth, and the bestselling more recent series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. Here we share all of her books in order.
What is Kate Mosse's latest book?
The Map of Bones is the latest book by Kate Mosse and the fourth and final instalment in the Joubert Family Chronicles series. It was published in hardback on 10 October 2024.
Kate Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles books in order
‘A gorgeously written, utterly absorbing epic and, despite being set in the sixteenth century, has some very pertinent messages for our time’
Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party
What is Kate Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles series about?
In Kate Mosse's Joubert Family Chronicles series, shetakes readers on a thrilling journey from 16th-century France to Paris, Amsterdam, London and beyond, in a gripping story of love, betrayal and divided loyalties.
We begin with Sunday Times bestselling historical fiction novel The Burning Chambers, set in France in 1562. The adventure continues in the second book in the series, The City of Tears, set in Paris, Chartres and Amsterdam in 1572, before Mosse takes us to seventeenth-century North Africa in her most recent novel, The Ghost Ship. Here, Kate gives readers a taste of what’s in store throughout the series.
‘This is historical fiction to devour. Nobody does it like Kate Mosse’
Anthony Horowitz on The Joubert Family Chronicles
Kate Mosse's Languedoc trilogy books in order
Standalone books by Kate Mosse
Meet Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is loved by her fans for her sweeping historical fiction series The Joubert Family Chronicles, but she is also the author of nine novels and short story collections, including her enthralling gothic novel The Taxidermist’s Daughter,the haunting ghost story The Winter Ghosts and her spooky short story collection The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales. Kate bought a little house within the medieval city walls of Carcassonne in 1989, and it was her time in the city where she became inspired by the landscape, the beauty and the history of the region – that helped Kate become the writer she is.