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The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales

The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales

Kate Mosse

Price: £14.99

On Sale: 24 October 2013

About the Book

The perfect winter story collection from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH, SEPULCHRE and CITADEL.A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired by ghost stories, traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by spirits and ghosts seeking revenge; by grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny - all rooted deep in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc. The collection includes The Mistletoe Bride, La Fille de Melisande, Red Letter Day, The Lending Library, The House on the Hill...

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

Full of vengeful spirits, grieving women and haunted men, these are atmospheric stories that will linger long in the memory (GLAMOUR)



Mosse's love of history and of ghosts and legends mix in her new collection of short stories ... Mosse creates beautiful scenarios (SUNDAY EXPRESS)



Kate Mosse is also a master of the short form ... Her ability to blur the lines between eras is so fluid its testament to her writing ... the ancient and modern ghostly tales of Mosse's anthology left us fearful, but fulfilled (STYLIST)



This collection is captivating ... once again fans of Mosse are in for a treat (IRISH EXAMINER)
Full of vengeful spirits, grieving women and haunted men, these are atmospheric stories that will linger long in the memory (GLAMOUR)

Mosse's love of history and of ghosts and legends mix in her new collection of short stories ... Mosse creates beautiful scenarios (SUNDAY EXPRESS)

Kate Mosse is also a master of the short form ... Her ability to blur the lines between eras is so fluid its testament to her writing ... the ancient and modern ghostly tales of Mosse's anthology left us fearful, but fulfilled (STYLIST)

This collection is captivating ... once again fans of Mosse are in for a treat (IRISH EXAMINER)

Product Details

ISBN: 9781409148043

Published: 24 October 2013

304 Pages