Mosse is a writer of historical thrillers, best-selling tales of high adventure with supernatural twists and page-turning plots involving grail quests, esoteric sects and ancient curses. There is something timeless in the physical beauty of the Languedoc region and the citadel city of Carcassonne, Mosse says: the untamed garrigue, the dramatic weather shifts from brilliant skies to menacing thundercloud and the land's bloody history, which she finds humbling. Mosse walks in Kingley Vale with her West Highland terrier, Hamish, as a routine end to a day of research, rereading, editing and writing that begins at daybreak when her large household is slumbering.įor all its silent majesty, however, the landscape of her childhood has not gripped her imagination quite as tightly as the foothills of the Pyrenees in south-western France, where for 23 years Mosse has kept a second home. Legend has it the 12 oldest trees at the heart of the woods sprang up where brave Saxon defenders of the Weald fell at the swords of the Viking invaders, and later witches and Druids met within the cave-like clearings beneath the gnarled limbs. Close to the home of British author Kate Mosse, on the edge of England's chalky South Downs, lies the country's oldest yew forest.
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