About the Book…
‘When the leaves turn to copper and there is dew on the grass in the early morning, I still have that same spike of expectation and anticipation’
In Autumn, Kate Mosse celebrates the season of shifting light and crisp mornings. This magical journey through the turning year captures the ever-changing colours of the autumn landscape, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the drift of migrating birds and the last warmth of the sun.
Starting in her own garden, Kate leads us out to the misty Fishbourne marshes of her childhood, with their vast skies and wading birds, and into ancient yew forests/ steeped in myth and mystery. We travel across the harvest fields, follow the river bends of the Ouse and the Lavant, and join the crowds at Lewes on Bonfire Night, where the air crackles with flame and torchlight.
Exploring nature, folklore, memory and history, Autumn is a love letter to Sussex and an atmospheric portrait of the season from one of our most celebrated writers.
About the Author…
Kate Mosse, CBE, is an international number one bestselling novelist, playwright, performer, activist, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of twelve novels and short-story collections, five works of non-fiction and four plays, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. The first inspiration for all of Kate’s writing is place and the stories that emerge from the landscape of southwest France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Normandy and her native Sussex. Her historical adventure novels include Labyrinth and The Burning Chambers, Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter, and highly acclaimed non-fiction including An Extra Pair of Hands and Feminist History for Every Day of the Year. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Kate is a visiting professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester and a Trustee of the British Library. She lives in Chichester, West Sussex.
