Join Serenity Booksellers for an exciting evening talking to the magnificent Kate Mosse!

Tickets include an evening with Kate, listening to her talk about her life, career and new book, The Map of Bones, as well as a Q&A session and book-signing.

Doors are 7pm and talk starts at 7:30pm.

About Kate

Kate Mosse is the author of eleven novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles – The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel – and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter.

Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. She has also written four works of non-fiction – including her memoir about caring An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World.

She has also written four plays, contributed essays and introductions to classic novels and collections. Her novel for Quick Reads, The Black Mountain, was published in 2022 and she contributed a story to the international bestselling Miss Marple Collection of Short Stories, Marple.

A champion of women’s creativity, Kate is the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction & the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – the largest annual celebration of women’s writing in the world – and is the Founder of the global campaign #WomanInHistory launched in January 2021 to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements throughout history.

She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List 2024 for services to literature, women and charity, was named Woman of the Year for her service to the arts in the Everywoman Awards. She is a Trustee of the British Library, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors.

A regular guest on book & arts shows on radio and television, she also writes and presents documentaries and tours her one-woman shows including Warrior Queens: The Show, Women Who Resisted: Celebrating Women of World War II and, for 2025, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of her global bestselling novel Labyrinth Live: The Secrets of the Labyrinth.

The Map of Bones Synopsis

A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the number one bestselling The Ghost Ship.

‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeleine Miller, bestselling author of Circe

Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives in search of her cousin – the notorious she-captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon-Joubert – who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before, then disappeared without a trace . . .

Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid woman of the Joubert family – Isabelle Lepard – has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is not only going to discover the truth, but also escape with her life . . .

Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the fourth – and final – novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship.

 

Tickets are £8* per person without book (ticket redeemable against a signed copy of The Map of Bones) or £22* per person with book (includes a signed copy of The Map of Bones) and can be bought here or at the counter.

Please note, this will be held in the Parish Hall of St. Pauls, Compstall. Parking is very limited so please park at Etherow Country Park where possible to save space for those with impaired mobility. For parking follow Etherow Country Park George Street Stockport SK6 5JD.