Kate Mosse’s books in order

Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688: The Cape's violent south-east wind carries whispers of the unquiet dead through a deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, escaping war-torn France, seeks the truth of her cousin, the she-captain and pirate Louise Reydon-Joubert, who vanished at the Cape over six decades ago. Centuries later in Franschhoek, journalist Isabelle Lepard, another Joubert, searches for her ancestors in Olifantshoek. She's determined to restore the women of her lineage to history. But 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.

Book one in The Joubert Family Chronicles series

Beginning in Carcassonne in 1562, The Burning Chambers is a thrilling adventure and a heartbreaking love story set against the backdrop of the religious wars in France. When nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter reading only SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE, she realises she must decipher this mysterious message. But before she has a chance she meets Piet Reydon, a young Huguenot convert with a dangerous mission of his own, and her world is changed forever . . .

Book two in The Joubert Family Chronicles series

The gripping sequel to The Burning Chambers is set in France in 1572, where the Wars of Religion have been raging for ten violent years. The country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty, but a royal wedding may mean peace at last. When Minou Joubert receives an invitation to this historic wedding, she has no idea that in the days following the marriage her own family will be ripped apart and one of her children will disappear without trace. 

Book three in the Joubert Family Chronicles series. 

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months, its captain - Louise Reydon-Joubert - and her courageous crew has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids. But now the Ghost Ship is under attack – its hull splintered, its sails tattered and burnt, and the crew at risk of capture. But the bravest among them are not who they seem.

Book one in the Languedoc trilogy

Labyrinth tells the story of Alais and Alice – the first a young woman in thirteenth-century Carcassone who is given a strange book by her father which purports to hold the mystery of the true Grail, the second who discovers two skeletons in a cave in the French Pyrenees in 2005. Seeing a labyrinth symbol carved in the cave wall, Alice realises she has uncovered an unsettling secret: a link to the remote and dangerous past.

Book two in the Languedoc trilogy

In 1891, seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier, having fled Paris for the sanctuary of her aunt's house near Carcassonne, soon stumbles across a ruined sepulchre and a mystery whose traces are written in blood.

In 2007, Meredith Martin arrives in Carcassonne to research a biography. But during the search for the key to her own complex legacy, she becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, a unique deck of tarot cards and the strange events of one cataclysmic night a century ago . . .

Book three in the Languedoc trilogy

It's 1942, and in Nazi-occupied France, Sandrine – a brave and vivacious nineteen-year-old – is drawn into 'Citadel', a Resistance group in Carcassonne comprised of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything to fight for what is right.

This unmissable war novel is a story of courage and passion that asks, when the enemy lurks in every shadow, when neighbour turns on neighbour and friends disappear without a trace . . . is love enough?

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women’s history. Meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, Kate Mosse's book is for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made.

May, 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife which lies in the shadow of a mighty volcano. Legend says the volcano is home to the Devil himself, but for thousands of years it has stood quietly idle, posing no threat.

That is until one day, when Ana notices that the air feels strange and heavy. The birds have stopped singing. As she tends 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 . . .

In 1912 in a Sussex churchyard, villagers gather on the evening when the spirits of those who will die in the coming year will be seen. Staying aloof is Constantia, the 17-year-old taxidermist's daughter, who lives amongst the remnants of her father's stuffed creations. The bell rings out, and nobody sees a gloved hand reach for a flint. When the bell's notes fade, a woman is found dead. As the village prepares for the highest tide of the season, Connie comes under suspicion. Is she an innocent victim? Or are there stranger and more sinister forces at work?

For Freddie Watson, the great war has taken his much-loved brother, and his peace of mind. He spends long tracts of time in a sanatorium recovering, but in 1928 departs on a journey through the French Pyrenees. Freddie's car skids off the mountain road. Staggering into the woods, he comes to a small village, where beautiful Fabrissa is also steeped in loss. They share stories, and uncover a centuries' old mystery over the course of a magical, troubling, haunting night.

Kate Mosse's much-loved non-fiction book shares the story of what it is like to care for those we love. 

In her own life, Kate has cared for her father and mother, and for her 90-year-old mother-in-law, Granny Rosie. Through this, she has experienced the joys, challenges and frustrations shared by an invisible army of carers.

At the heart of providing care, lie everyday acts of love and the realisation that, at some point in our lives, most of us will come to rely on an extra pair of hands.