The Map of Bones

''Brilliant . . . The past is felt deep in the reader''s bones'' - The Observer A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land. Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives at the Cape of Good Hope in search of her infamous cousin - Louise Reydon-Joubert - who disappeared without a trace more than sixty years before. But not all is as it seems . . . Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years later, another intrepid woman of the Joubert family - Isabelle Lepard - has journeyed to the Cape in search of her long-lost relations. But when she discovers that the crimes of the past are far from over, she faces a race to escape with her life . . . Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the fourth - and final - novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers , The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship . ''This is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand tradition'' - The Telegraph '' A fittingly terrific conclusion [to The Joubert Family Chronicles]'' - i newspaper * The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 06-10-24

Product details

• Authors: Kate Mosse, Mosse Kate
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781035042173
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504217-3
• No. of pages: 461
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: The Joubert Family Chronicles
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Cornwall, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Central London, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical adventure fiction, c 1870 to c 1879, c 1680 to c 1689, c 1860 to c 1869, Northern Cape, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages