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Kate Mosse: How I Found My Voice with Samira Ahmed

Kate Mosse discussed her upbringing, her career and how she combines the solitary world of the writer with the role of a public intellectual and advocate

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling novelist, playwright and non-fiction writer, best known for her multi-million Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel. But Mosse is not a writer who stays quietly alone in her writing room. She is a passionate champion of helping other writers, particularly women, find their voice. She is the co-founder of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and is on the executive committee of the Women of the World festival.

In this live podcast recording of How I Found My Voice with Samira Ahmed, Mosse talked about her upbringing, her career and how she combines the solitary world of the writer with the role of a public intellectual and advocate.


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Kate Mosse

Award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, whose latest book is Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World


Award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. She has written nine novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles, number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter and the highly-acclaimed memoir An Extra Pair of Hands. She is the Founder-Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. Her latest book, part detective story, part family history and part dictionary of 1000 women missing from history is Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. She is currently preparing a theatre tour for Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries for spring 2023 and working on the third novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles, a historical crime thriller set in 17th century France, Tenerife and South Africa for publication in July 2023.
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Samira Ahmed

Journalist, writer and broadcaster


One of the most recognised voices in British broadcasting. Her work spans news and the arts – from working as a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News to presenting the Proms. She presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on BBC One. She hosts the award-winning Intelligence Squared podcast, How I Found My Voice