In Conversation with Kate Mosse
Thu, 26 Sept
|Tiverton
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award winning novelist, playwright, performer, interviewer and writer of history and memoir. 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.
Time & Location
26 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 20:00
Tiverton, New Hall, Barrington St, Tiverton EX16 6QP, UK
About The Event
The Map of Bones, Liznojan is thrilled to welcome the international No. 1 Bestselling author, Kate Mosse CBE, on 26/09/24. Kate will be in conversation with Karen Huxtable at Tiverton's New Hall, talking about her new historical adventure novel. TheMap of Bones: an epic story of adventure and hardship, dispossession and injustice. The sequel to the No. 1 bestselling, The Ghost Ship–this epic adventure story is the fourth and final novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles series bringing southern Africa in the 17th and 19th centuries to life.
Olifantshoek, South Africa, 1688. When the vicious Cape wind blows from the south-east, they saythe voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through this deserted valley. Suzanne Joubertis here to walk in the footsteps of her cousin, Louise Reydon-Joubert, pirate and commander of theGhost Ship, who disappeared more than sixty years ago. Suzanne has come to find her—to lay thestories to rest. But all is not as it seems . . .Franschhoek, South Africa, 1862. One hundred and eighty years later, another member of the Joubertfamily, Isabelle Lepard, has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek insearch of the long-lost women of her family. But the tragedies and crimes of the past are far fromover, and Isabellemust race against time to not only discover the truth but escape with her life . .