 Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is an author and broadcaster. She is the presenter of BBC4's Readers and Writers Roadshow and guest presents Saturday Review for Radio 4.
Kate'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 and newspapers.
Kate has published two non-fiction books: Becoming a Mother a companion to pregnancy and childbirth (now in its fourth 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.
Kate is the Co-Founder & Honorary Director of the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is the author of several of the Orange Prize education initiatives and chaired the judging panel for Orange Futures - a promotion supporting the work of women novelists aged 35 and under. She also judged the Orange/Scotsman Young Communicators Award in May 2002. She is also one of the regular judges of the Financial Times/Arts & Business Sponsor of the Year Awards and has judged many writing competitions for adults and children.
On TV, Kate is the presenter of BBC Four's Readers & Writers Roadshow. Among Kate's guests on the show have been many of the world's leading and best-selling authors including - Dr Maya Angelou, Philip Pullman, Paulo Coelho, Beryl Bainbridge, Joanne Harris, Professor Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan, Peter Ackroyd, Tracy Chevalier, Joanna Trollope, Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker, Fay Weldon, Jean Auel and Ian Rankin.
From 1998 - 2001, Kate was Deputy Director of Chichester Festival Theatre in West Sussex, the first woman ever to hold the position. She has written and presented several programmes for BBC Radio 4 on the arts and sponsorship. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Kate was named European Woman of Achievement for Contribution to the Arts in 2000.
Kate and her husband live in West Sussex and Carcasonne, France.
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