Welcome
Hello and welcome.
2025 is shaping up to be quite a year, with one new book, two paperback publications and three reissues. And that’s before celebrating the 20th publication anniversary of my novel Labyrinth and the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which I co-founded in 1996.
So, January kicks off with the paperback publication of Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. Such a lot has changed for women in the world since I wrote the book in 2022, so it’s an updated version taking some of those seismic world events into account. Click here to buy.
In February, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the novel that changed my life – Labyrinth – there will be a fantastic new anniversary edition with a new introduction by Sir Ian Rankin and an afterword by me. Click here to order.
At the tail end of February, I’ll be back on the road with a new one-woman theatre show – Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth – travelling all over England and Wales for six weeks to share the story of the writing of Labyrinth, and the real history that underpins the imaginary world, with audiences. For venues and tickets, click here.
The paperback of the final novel in ‘The Joubert Family Chronicles’ – The Map of Bones – will publish in June, just in time for summer holiday reading, alongside two fabulous new paperback editions of the first two novels in the quartet. To preorder click here.
Last but not least, I’m delighted to be publishing my first book for young adults in September. Feminist History for Every Day of the Year will shine a spotlight on the amazing women and girls of the past and present who are changing our world for the better. To preorder click here.
As always, thanks to everyone for their support – my publishers, literary agents, booksellers, librarians, trade associations, literary festivals, journalists – and most of all you, the readers. I couldn’t do it without you.
January 2025
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries (paperback)
History, completed.
'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' – Glamour
Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for anyone who has ever questioned how history is made.
In this alternative and inspiring history, Kate Mosse shines a light on nearly 1,000 women from across the globe whose names and achievements deserve to be celebrated, not forgotten:
- Rachel Carson, mother of the modern environmental movement
- Ethel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuoso
- Anne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue
- Pauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyer
- Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctor
- Doria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women’s liberation leader
- Cornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women’s rights campaigner
- Shirley Chisholm, the first female US presidential candidate
And as she researches the lives of these ground-breaking women, Kate embarks on a detective story to uncover a forgotten literary superstar in her own family, reflecting the desire of so many people to trace their own roots . . .
'Excellent . . . Bursting with extraordinary women' – Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin
‘A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love’ – Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens
'A powerful panorama of the extraordinary achievements of a wonderful cast of women - both famous and hidden - down the millennia' – Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin