The Map of Bones: Kate Mosse CBE

Join celebrated Sussex author Kate Mosse in conversation as part of the launch tour for  her much anticipated latest book, The Map of Bones. A story of adventure and hardship, dispossession and injustice, The Map of Bones is the sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Ghost Ship, and the fourth and final novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles.

Olifantshoek, South Africa, 1688. When the vicious Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through this deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert is here to walk in the footsteps of her cousin, Louise Reydon-Joubert, pirate and commander of the Ghost Ship, who disappeared more than sixty years ago. Suzanne has come to find her—to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems . . .

Franschhoek, South Africa, 1862. One hundred and eighty years later, another member of the Joubert family, Isabeau, has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of the long-lost women of her family. But the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over, and Isabeau must race against time to not only discover the truth but escape with her life . . .

An award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer, Kate is author of ten novels and short-story collections. Her books have sold over five million copies, been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries.

“Mosse is a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination”– Daily Telegraph

“Astonishingly powerful, gripping, a sweeping epic of voices…impossible to resist.”–Professor Kate Williams, Historian

www.katemosse.co.uk,  Twitter: @katemosse, Instagram: @katemossewriter, Facebook: KateMosseAuthor

Kate’s books will be available at the event from the Wordfest/CityBooks stall or from Chapter 34 Shoreham