Kate Mosse: Writing Historical Fiction

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kate Mosse is the multimillion-selling author of the Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel. With her new novel The City of Tears, the second in her series The Burning Chambers, just out in paperback, she tells the story of a family’s fight to stay together and survive against the backdrop of the French Wars of Religion and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Kate Mosse about how she goes about writing historical fiction, researching the events of the past, imagining the characters who lived through them and, most particularly, conjuring up the places she finds inspiring - but as they used to be.

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0:00.0	May 1572
0:11.9	For ten violent years, the Wars of Religion have raged across France.
0:17.3	But now peace has been broken and a royal wedding has been negotiated.
0:22.2	It is a marriage that could reunite France at last.
0:26.6	And an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris.
0:36.2	Minou Joubert is the protagonist of Kate Moss's latest novel, The City of Tears,
0:42.6	which comes out in paperback this month.
0:45.2	And listeners to this podcast will know that August 1572, the time of the wedding,
0:51.2	was not a good time for a Huyukino family to visit Paris.
0:56.5	Operating on both a vast epic scale across 16th century Europe
1:00.6	and also very much telling the intimate, deeply personal story of one family.
1:05.5	This historical thriller is a fascinating way into the religious differences
1:10.0	cleaving Europe in the 1570s.
1:13.3	Kate Moss, OBE, is an internationally bestselling novelist, playwright and nonfiction writer.
1:20.0	Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in 40 countries.
1:25.2	She's the author of eight novels and short story collections
1:27.9	who almost certainly have heard of and probably read her trilogy of novels
1:32.0	that begins with labyrinth and is set in Lundock in the 13th century
1:35.8	exploring the persecution of the Cathars.
1:38.4	The City of Tears is the second book in a series of novels that start with the French Wars of Religion.
1:44.8	The first was the Burning Chambers, which was a Sunday Times number one bestseller.
1:50.6	Kate is also the founder director of the Women's Prize for Fiction,
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