Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth was a New York Times bestselling novel in addition to being a popular and critical success on an international scale. It won the Best Read category at the British Book Awards 2006, was #1 in UK paperback for six months — selling over one million copies — and was the biggest selling title of 2006. In 2007, it was named as one of the Top 25 books of the past 25 years by the bookselling chain Waterstone’s. It also hit the bestseller charts in various countries throughout the world, including the United States, Germany, Italy, Holland, Norway, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Translation rights to Labyrinth have been sold in thirty-seven languages, including Japanese, Chinese, and Hebrew. Translation rights for Sepulchre are being sold to the same territories, and the film and televisions rights for both novels are under negotiation.

Mosse’s first novel, Eskimo Kissing, was published to great acclaim in 1996, followed in 1998 by an exciting, bio-tech time-travel thriller, Crucifix Lane. Her short stories and articles have appeared in a range of magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She currently writes a column for the weekly British book trade magazine, The Bookseller, and reviews for The Times, The Sunday Times, the Guardian, and the Independent. She has also published two non-fiction books: Becoming a Mother, a companion to pregnancy and childbirth (now in its sixth edition), and The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which accompanied the award-winning BBC television fly-on-the-wall documentary series.

Mosse is the Co-Founder & Honorary Director of the Orange Prize for Fiction, set up in 1996 to celebrate outstanding fiction by women from throughout the world. In addition to the educational and literacy initiatives, she is one of the authors who presented a petition raising concern about illiteracy rates in British schools in January 2008. She is a regular judge of writing, literary and art awards, including Orange Futures, the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Competition, and the Financial Times Arts & Business Sponsor of the Year Awards.

Mosse is also a broadcaster for BBC television and radio, having hosted BBC Four’s flagship weekly book program, “The Readers & Writers Roadshow.” Among Kate's guests on the show have been many of the world's leading authors, including Dr. Maya Angelou, Philip Pullman, Paulo Coelho, Ian McEwan, Joanna Trollope, Margaret Atwood, and Jean Auel.

She is now the Book Review/Commentator for BBC One Breakfast News. She is also the guest presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “Open Book,” and “A Good Read.”

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Board Member of the Prince of Wales’ organization Arts & Business, Mosse was named European Woman of Achievement for Contribution to the Arts in 2000. In 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Masters Degree by the University of Chichester, her hometown, for her contribution to the arts. Kate and her husband, Greg Mosse—a writer, teacher and interpreter—are the founders of the Chichester Writing Festival and teach creative writing at West Dean College. With their teenage children, they divide their time between Chichester, West Sussex, England, and Carcassonne, France, where they have had a house for the past 19 years.