Sepulchre
Kate Mosse
Price: £7.99
On Sale: 1 May 2008
About the Book
A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH 1891. Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But Leonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood. 2007. Meredith Martin arrives at the Domaine de la Cade to research a biography. But Meredith is also seeking the key to her own complex legacy and 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...
Author
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library.
Reviews
Sepulchre is compulsive, fantastic, historical yarn. Mosse's skills lie in the presice nature of her storytelling'
OBSERVER
Mosse's gift for historical fiction are considerable... Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own
THE INDEPENDENT
Ghosts, duels, ill-fated love and conspiracy... addictively readable
DAILY MAIL
Her narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day, are also a cut above.
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Sepulchre is compulsive, fantastic, historical yarn. Mosse's skills lie in the presice nature of her storytelling'
OBSERVER
Mosse's gift for historical fiction are considerable... Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own
THE INDEPENDENT
Ghosts, duels, ill-fated love and conspiracy... addictively readable
DAILY MAIL
Her narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day, are also a cut above.
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Product Details
ISBN: 9780752893440
Published: 1 May 2008
784 Pages