Kate Mosse
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Writer (novels, history, plays) ~ Interviewer ~Founder Director @womensprize ~Fellow of @RSLiterature ~Visiting Prof @chiuni ~ @FestOfChi ~ @britishlibrary
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Well, here it is! After twelve years of dreaming, researching and writing, the final volume of The Joubert Family Chronicles is here. Publishing October 2024. If you fancy pre ordering (which would be lovely), then here's the link
@MantleBooks
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My name is Kate, I am 61 today (since you’re asking) and all I want for my birthday is a functioning government and ministers guided by democracy & public service rather than self interest & personal advantage. Can anyone help my dreams come true?
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OK, I just can’t resist - welcome to the world Baby Finn from your smitten grandmother ❤️
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Hamish the best-ever Westie (6 December 2005 - 19 September 2023) 💔
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Happy 93rd Birthday to the legend, to the one-and-only, Granny Rosie - aka Rosie Turner. Here’s to that g&t later 🍸 Please send her all your birthday wishes and turn Twitter a nicer place for her today ❤️
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‘It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.’
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So, thought I'd do a *little* dusting of bookshelves and, well, now look! Oh dear, oh dear ....
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In the 1970s and 1980s we marched to
#ReclaimTheNight
... yet here we still are. In 2021 💔
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Inside this very ordinary-looking box are the 16 dazzling, fantastic, heart-stopping, moving, brilliant novels that make up the
@WomensPrize
longlist 2021. Join us at 6pm UK time for all to be revealed ...
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This is fabulous, but also reflects the tireless and amazing hard work of booksellers themselves. Many indie booksellers will not have had a day off in months. Thank you all ❤️👉 Bookshops defy pandemic to record highest sales for eight years
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So, today's the day we're launching our
#womaninhistory
campaign to nominate a woman - from any period of history, anywhere in the world - you think should be a household name or that you simply want to celebrate. So, do share, RT and get nominating!
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Thrilled with today’s news and so touched by all your kind messages, and love for
@WomensPrize
- here’s to another year of writing and putting amazing fiction & non-fiction into the hands of readers
#commandermosse
#NYHonours
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Today, on this - the shortest day of the year - our beloved mother died. Inspirational, wonderful, brilliant, loving, she is still so very missed. Here she is, the summer before she died, looking her beautiful self. Barbara Mary Mosse (15 September 1931 - 21 December 2014)
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A little news. Honoured and delighted to be joining the Board of the
@britishlibrary
from tomorrow! Following in some mighty footsteps 📚
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Thrilled to announce that - ahem - I'm starting a new career at 61 and taking my first ever One-Woman Show on the road! Celebrating amazing women from past and present, coming to a theatre near you in March & April 2023. Tickets & information at
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So, this has happened. After all these years, it is still thrilling. Thank you brilliant
@panmacmillan
team and amazing reps, to all the bookshops and to all the fabulous readers who have taken my pirates to their hearts. From a grateful (and somewhat tired) author …
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So, I did this today … Thanks to lovely
@laurenlaverne
and the wonderful
@BBCRadio4
DID producers and studio, and to everyone for your kind messages
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So, you *might* have noticed 😂 that it’s publication day today ... Beautiful flowers from my fantastic and genius publishers
@MantleBooks
@panmacmillan
But the best thing? Today, Granny Rosie received her first vaccine 👏👏👏 Thank you
@NHSEngland
❤️
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Well, will you look at this glorious proof waiting for me on my day off. Red foil and everything, sailing into a bookshop near you on 6th July
#TheGhostShip
- preorder link in bio …
@MantleBooks
@panmacmillan
@TheSohoAgencyUK
⚓️
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This is the (rather hidden!) face of a woman, on a train to London, for the first time in 10 months ...
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So, ahead of tonight’s announcement of 2020
@WomensPrize
- here’s to everyone who’s made the Prize what it is - founders, booksellers, the team over 25 years, librarians, publishers, judges, partners, sponsors, trustees, donors, readers. But, most of all, the writers.❤️
#25
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I am delighted to share with you our 29th - yes, really -
@WomensPrize
fiction shortlist. Hurrah! Congratulations to the novelists and publishers, and heartfelt thanks to the 2024 judging panel
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@thetimes
Well, good morning! A huge thank you to
@Waterstones
for your brilliant support - esp when shops are shut! - to the fabulous team
@MantleBooks
and fellow
@panmacmillan
author
@RavenLeilani
💐Most of all to our readers ☺️ 👏
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Such a pleasure to go to Windsor Castle yesterday to collect my CBE with my wonderfuls
@martha_mosse
@FelixMosse
@oliverhalladay
(with
@GregMosse
waiting around the corner). Thank you to everyone who makes these days so joyous
#investiture
#windsor
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On this day in 2014 - the shortest day of the year - my wonderful mother, Barbara Mosse, died. Still so very much missed ...
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Out and about early in a cold, but glorious, London. Big announcement coming today …
@BBCRadio4
@BBCr4today
@WomensPrize
#warriorqueens
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Very much missing
#Carcassonne
at the moment - it's the longest time I've not been able to visit for 31 years! Here's a photo of La Cité taken from the Pont Vieux. Where would you like to be? Share a photo and tag it
#WishIWasThere
@audetourisme
@Carcassonnenews
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Good morning. Just sharing this incredible harvest basket by Granny Rosie, knitted for charity. She is a genius and, at nearly 92, remains an inspiration ...
#grannyrosie
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So, I signed *one or two* books today .. Thank you
@ProfileBooks
@ExploreWellcome
for looking after me so well
#AnExtraPairOfHands
🖊📚
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This is excellent news - all power to everyone who campaigned and wrote about this, not least of all
@jowhiley
@Beathhigh
👉 people with learning disabilities will be invited for Covid vaccines, says care minister
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It’s Independent Bookshop Week. A huge thank you for everything you do for us authors 🙌 and let’s all support our local or favourite Indie this week (and, ahem, every week) Choose 📚📚📚
#IndieBookshopWeek
@booksaremybag
@BAbooksellers
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Pencils sharpened, at the beginning of a brand new creative project, so worth remembering the story so far ...
#writinglife
@TheSohoAgencyUK
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So, tomorrow at
@AgathaFestival
I’ll be talking to the mighty & and brilliant
@AnthonyHorowitz
about Marple, Poirot and all things Christie (and his latest crime novel too)
@agathachristie
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My name is Kate. I believe that integrity in politics matters, that honesty matters, that representation matters. Fewer than a quarter of the new cabinet are women. This cannot be said to be a government of ‘all the talents’.
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23 March 2021: thinking of all those who have worked so hard to keep us safe - thank you - and all those who have lost someone in this past year 💔
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Doing a little housekeeping (computer spring clean) and came across a few photographs of filming
#Labyrinth
in Carcassonne with the great, late
#JohnHurt
@TomFelton
#JessicaBrownFindlay
and the wonderful
@VanessaKirby
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Well, what lovely news to wake up to 📘
@WHSmith
and Richard & Judy have chosen
#TheBurningChambers
as one of their
#StayAtHome
reads ... though Mish less thrilled than he might be ...
#letsleepingdogs
@MantleBooks
@panmacmillan
#TheCityofTears
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Which are you, a warrior queen or a quiet revolutionary? I'm delighted to announce my new book, a labour of love that's part family detective story and part celebration of nearly 1000 trailblazing women from history. Available to pre-order now
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Well, quite the 24 hours.
@BarbicanCentre
with the wondrous
#StanleyTucci
and
#soho
with the lovely
@GeriHalliwell
- but nothing so important as celebrating the first birthday of my glorious, life-affirming grandson ❤️
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And here is the beautiful independent bookshop paperback edition of
#TheGhostShip
, available in your favourite indie 20th June. Thank you to the brilliant
@panmacmillan
designers and art department
@MantleBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
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UK supermarkets unite after Sainsbury's advert prompts racist backlash
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And here’s something I prepared earlier ...
#WomanInHistory
Footballers, fossil hunters and warrior queens: the women history forgot
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When you write, edit, cut, weep, rewrite all over Christmas and New Year (with Covid-Not-Covid making an appearance), and just manage to make your deadline with one minute to spare. Happy 2023 to you!
@MantleBooks
@panmacmillan
@MinotaurBooks
#pirates
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On the day of the 26th
@WomensPrize
here’s to all the amazing people who have been behind the scenes too for all these years and more. Thank you
@GregMosse
❤️
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This 👉🏻 Study finds English libraries generate at least £3.4bn in yearly value
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Thinking of my brilliant, wonderful, clever, beloved and much-missed mother today. Barbara Mary Mosse, 1930 - 2014 (here, dressed as Nefertiti!)
#mothersday2024
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This 👉 England's bookshops should be classed as essential, booksellers argue
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Drum roll! Here's the cover for my memoir about being a carer - and a tribute to three amazing people: my father, my mother and my mother-in-law. Available to preorder now
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When this is the image on your hotel wall when on book tour, you know your publisher is messing with you …
#notthatkatemoss
@panmacmillan
@MantleBooks
@ChristianLLewis
@ArtistResidence
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Last week, MPs voted on Amendment 45 of the Environment Bill, which would force UK water companies to reduce sewage pollution. Chichester
@gillianKeegan
voted to reject it. I call upon her to respect her constituents and vote IN FAVOUR on 27 October to protect our rivers & seas.
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Georgie Grier plays to sell-out Edinburgh crowd 24 hours after tearful tweet
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Absolutely beautiful interview
@RevRichardColes
@guardian
Reverend Richard Coles: ‘The loss of my husband is immense’
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To cheer you up
@c_m_matthews
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Kora the caracal kitten has perfected her ear flick.
via wildcatcentre/IG
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Good morning world. Marmite toast and coffee in favourite cup (given in lieu of a fee from some long-ago literary festival)
#breakfast
#marmite
#yesorno
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They are here! Beautiful paperback edition of
#TheCityofTears
, out 20th January. Order from your local independent bookseller or follow this link Let's paint the town orange!
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What a wonderful sight for an author's tired eyes on publication day! Thank you
@WaterstonesCh
for this magnificent window and
@Waterstones
for all your support
#TheCityofTears
#hometowngirl
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At
@HarrogateFest
with the one and only, the Quine of Crime
@valmcdermid
#theakstonsoldpeculier
#crimefestival
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Calling everyone worldwide who took part in our
#womaninhistory
. Today, the book inspired by that campaign comes out. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of nearly 1000 women who made history. Let me know your woman from history using hashtag
#warriorqueens
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I am so proud to be sharing our first ever Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist. Congratulations to the sixteen authors and a huge thank you to our wonderful judges
@sixteenthCgirl
@venetialamanna
@kamilashamsie
@NicolaRollock
@annesebba
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I am utterly thrilled to be included in a list of incredible novels. Thank you judges, booksellers, my fabulous publisher
@mantle
and all the readers who took my pirates to their hearts
#nibbies
#britishbookawards
@panmacmillan
@TheSohoAgencyUK
#iwd
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Drum roll! To all my wonderful readers, the brilliant booksellers & bloggers, the luminous librarians, thank you & here it is - the glorious jacket. If you fancy, you can pre order here and share using hashtag
#TheCityOfTears
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Well, good morning! The sun is shining, the trains are running and I’m on my way
@LondonBookFair
to give a keynote speech with the marvellous
@louiseminchin
chairing. Main stage Olympia at 10am - come and join us
@MantleBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
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Dear Twitter. I am not - and have never been - *that* Kate Moss, so please stop tagging me unless you are talking about novels! 😱
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Oh my! On this beautiful winter’s morning, look what’s just arrived. Thank you
@panmacmillan
@MantleBooks
for this beautiful proof 🙏
#TheCityOfTears
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Cheesy, I know, but then again … Thank you
@WHSmith
and brilliant
@panmacmillan
sales team
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COMPETITION ALERT! I am thrilled to have 3 proof copies of
#AnExtraPairofHands
to give away ahead of the Easter weekend, To enter, all you have to do is RT this post before midnight tonight. Prizes can be sent to UK addresses only. Good luck!I
@ProfileBooks
@ExploreWellcome
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Still in (happy) shock, but here's A HUGE THANK YOU to the booksellers, sales reps, interviewers, bloggers, vloggers, the amazing team at
@panmacmillan
@mantle
- and most of all the READERS - who supported my return to fulltime writing & put
#TheBurningChambers
at the No 1 spot.
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Today, wrote the final full stop and sent new novel to my brilliant editor. Blimey.
@MantleBooks
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Granny Rosie wants to thank everyone for their lovely birthday wishes! 92 years young and still a
#warriorqueen
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Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards
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After a wonderful book launch for
#warriorqueens
last night - thank you wonderful
@MantleBooks
@panmacmillan
- Granny is back! No filter (obvs, as everyone can clearly see 😂😱)
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The doors are open!
#ChooseBookshops
#BookshopsAreBack
and a special thank you to my local
@WaterstonesChi
... first time I’ve seen my book in a
@Waterstones
shelf 🙏
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This is the happy face of an author on the Caledonian Sleeper, after a day of book talk in Glasgow and the prospect of another glorious book day to come in London. What joy!
#lifeat60
@MantleBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
@HarperFiction
#warriorqueens
#marple
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