Autumn - The Story of a Season

About the author

Kate Mosse, CBE, is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, performer, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, four works of non-fiction and three plays, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. The inspiration for all of Kate's writing is place and the stories that come out of the landscape of southwest France, Holland, South Africa and her native Sussex. Her historical adventure novels include the Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel) and her latest No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones). Her Gothic fiction includes The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter, which she adapted into a stage-play for Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign, a visiting professor in creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester, and a Trustee of the British Library. In January 2024, she was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature, women and charity. She lives in Chichester, West Sussex.

Product details

• Authors: Mosse Kate
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.09.2026
• EAN: 9781399746991
• ISBN: 978-1-3997-4699-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Illustrations: 10-15 illustrations, b&w
• Subjects: Prose: non-fiction, NATURE / Essays, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, NATURE / Seasons, natural history, Holidays & seasonal interest, Biography and non-fiction prose, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Seasonal interest: Autumn, Fall, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature