Kate Mosse is the author of nine novels and short story collections, including the no. 1 bestselling Joubert Family chronicles as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel – and no. 1 bestselling Gothic fiction novels The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter. Her latest book, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, is part detective story, part family history and part dictionary of a thousand women missing from history. Mosse is the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and sits on the Executive Committee of Women of the World. She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to literature and women.