Author, broadcaster and co-founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Award for New Writers, Kate Mosse will discuss her number one best-selling novel Labyrinth (Orion)/Het verloren labyrint (Unieboek). A spellbinding adventure story of courage, destiny and betrayal, set partly in medieval and contemporary Carcassone, Labyrinth has been translated into 37 languages and has sold over a million English copies. Mosse is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and winner of the 2000 European Woman of Achievement Award for her contribution to the Arts.

Labyrinth/Het verloren labyrint
July 1209: in Carcassonne a young girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alaïs cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in protecting it. It will take great sacrifice and faith to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe – a secret that stretches back thousands of years to the deserts of Ancient Egypt...

July 2005: Alice Tanner stumbles upon two skeletons during an archaeological dig in the mountains outside Carcassonne. Inside the hidden tomb where the bones lie crumbling, she experiences an overwhelming sense of malevolence, as well as a creeping understanding that, however impossible it seems, she can somehow understand the mysterious ancient words carved into the rock. Too late, Alice realises she's set in motion a terrifying sequence of events that she cannot control and that her destiny is inextricably tied up with the fate of the Cathars 800 years before.

Anthony Sattin, The Sunday Times
'A gripping holy grail quest... the story line runs on knowledge and fun – Carcassonne never looked so good.'

Nicci Gerrard
'A lovely, intelligent novel of discovery and loss, generous in its historical scope and intimate in its tender details.'

Language: English

Further information:

www.labyrinthbook.net/home/index.asp

www.mosselabyrinth.co.uk/

http://www.unieboek.nl