Kate Mosse Books in Order

In 1688, Huguenot refugee Suzanne Joubert arrives at the Cape of Good Hope determined to discover what became of her notorious cousin, she-captain Louise Reydon-Joubert. Almost two centuries later, Isabelle Lepard retraces Suzanne’s journey through South Africa, uncovering buried crimes and reclaiming the lost women of her family’s history.

Feminist History for Every Day of the Year offers 366 short entries celebrating women and girls from around the world, blending mini-biographies, quotes and illustrations into a dip-in daily companion designed to introduce younger readers to inspiring figures from past and present.

In the 1620s, heiress Louise Reydon-Joubert escapes scandal in Amsterdam by secretly captaining the Ghost Ship, a vessel hunting pirates and slave traders in the Atlantic. Sailing with her lover Gilles, she defies the Inquisition, challenges the slave trade and risks the gallows for love and freedom.

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a sweeping, highly personal history that introduces nearly a thousand women whose achievements have been overlooked, from environmental pioneers to pirates and civil-rights lawyers, while also tracing Mosse’s detective-like search for her forgotten novelist great-grandmother.

In 1706 on the island of Tenerife, young Ana tends her family’s vineyard beneath a long-dormant volcano. When the air changes and tremors shake the ground, she races to convince her sceptical community to flee before an eruption destroys the town she loves.

An Extra Pair of Hands is Mosse’s memoir of midlife caring, charting the years she spent supporting her father through Parkinson’s, her widowed mother and her ninety-year-old mother-in-law. It is an intimate portrait of ageing, family duty, small acts of tenderness and the hidden labour of carers.

Ten years after The Burning Chambers, Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris for a royal wedding meant to end France’s religious wars. Instead they are caught in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, forced into exile in Amsterdam and devastated when their young daughter disappears.

In 1562 Carcassonne, bookseller’s daughter Minou Joubert receives a cryptic letter—“She knows that you live”—just as war erupts between Catholics and Huguenots. Drawn to dangerous Huguenot convert Piet Reydon, she is swept into a conspiracy over a stolen relic that will shape her family for generations.

In 1912 on the Sussex marshes, seventeen-year-old Constantia Gifford lives with her broken father in the remains of their once-famous taxidermy museum. When a woman is found murdered after a stormy churchyard ritual, Connie’s fragmented memories stir and she must uncover the secrets linking her family to the crime.

A collection of ghostly and folkloric tales set in Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc, The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales weaves vengeful spirits, lost brides, cursed houses and grief-stricken lovers into atmospheric stories rooted in landscape and old country legends.

In Nazi-occupied Carcassonne in 1942, nineteen-year-old Sandrine Vidal joins a clandestine women’s Resistance network code-named Citadel. As they smuggle messages, shelter fugitives and guard an ancient codex with dangerous power, Sandrine must decide who to trust in a city where betrayal can mean death.

Still broken by his brother’s death in World War I, Freddie Watson drives into the French Pyrenees in 1928 and is stranded by a snowstorm. In a remote village he meets Fabrissa, a mysterious young woman whose own story reveals a tragedy buried for centuries.

In March 1928, Freddie Smith crashes his car in the mountains of south-west France and takes refuge in a village boarding house. There he hears of a vanished medieval community and a haunted cave, and his search for the truth leads to a chilling confrontation underground.

In 1891, Léonie Vernier flees Paris to her aunt’s country estate near Rennes-les-Bains, where a ruined chapel, a Visigoth tomb and a disturbing tarot pack hint at past violence. A century later, Meredith Martin follows the same trail and uncovers the estate’s deadly secrets.

Labyrinth intertwines two women’s lives eight centuries apart: Alice, a 2005 archaeology volunteer who discovers skeletons and a labyrinth ring in a Pyrenean cave, and Alaïs, a 13th-century Carcassonne healer sworn to protect a set of mysterious books linked to the Grail.

After being knocked unconscious in London’s Crucifix Lane, Annie wakes eleven years in the future and joins a charismatic activist group led by Kellen. Their mission hides ruthless biotech crimes, and when she returns to 1997 she knows the city’s fate rests with her choices.

Eskimo Kissing follows Sam Whittaker, an adopted teenager whose life is shattered when her twin sister Anna dies. Grief pushes Sam to trace her birth parents, forcing her to question identity, family loyalty and what truly makes someone “real” kin.

An insider portrait of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, The House follows one turbulent season behind the scenes, from rehearsal rooms to board meetings, capturing the pressures, personalities and passion that keep a major opera company alive.

Becoming a Mother is a companion guide to pregnancy, birth and early motherhood, combining clear medical guidance with personal reflections and real-life stories about the joys, fears and everyday challenges of becoming a parent for the first time.