Kate Mosse, CBE, is an international number one bestselling novelist, playwright, performer, activist, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of twelve novels and short-story collections, five works of non-fiction and four plays, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. The first inspiration for all of Kate's writing is place and the stories that emerge from the landscape of southwest France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Normandy and her native Sussex. Her historical adventure novels include Labyrinth and The Burning Chambers, Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter, and highly acclaimed non-fiction including An Extra Pair of Hands and Feminist History for Every Day of the Year. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, Kate is a visiting professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester and a Trustee of the British Library. She lives in Chichester, West Sussex.