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Becoming A Mother (in its seventh edition) was published by Virago in 1993, followed in 1995 by The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, published by BBC Books to accompany the BBC 2 The House. Career Early writing and the Languedoc Trilogy Īlthough best known for her adventure and ghost fiction, inspired by real history, Mosse's first two works were non-fiction. She left publishing in 1992, for a writing career beginning with the non-fiction, Becoming a Mother. She was a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Women in Publishing. After leaving university, she spent seven years working in publishing in London for Hodder & Stoughton, then Century, and finally as an editorial director at Hutchinson, part of the Random House Group. She was educated at Chichester High School For Girls and New College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1984 with a BA (Hons) in English. Mosse's aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was a vicar.

Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor, Richard (1920–2011) and Barbara (1931–2014). She co-founded in 1996 the annual award for best UK-published English-language novel by a woman that is now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction.

She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages. Katharine Mosse OBE (born 20 October 1961) is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. July 1209: in Carcassonne a 17-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail.Historical fiction, non-fiction, supernatural, gothic And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. 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. But Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood.ġ942, Nazi-occupied France. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade.