The Map of Bones
31 July 2025
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
'Brilliant . . . The past is felt deep in the reader’s bones' – The Observer
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land.
No word, no story, no grave . . .
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688.
Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from...
Details
31 July 2025
480 pages
9781035042173
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series of novels as brilliant and well researched as [The Joubert Family Chronicles], in which the past is felt deep in the reader’s bonesThe Observer
The fourth and final instalment in Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles . . . this is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand traditionThe Telegraph
[The Map of Bones] demonstrates Mosse’s skill in constructing a multi-stranded narrative and filling it with memorable charactersThe Sunday Times
The fourth instalment in Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles is a fittingly terrific conclusion, with intrepid women, perilous journeys, a search for the truth, and a narrative spanning 17th to 19th century South Africa, it's a gripping, atmospheric noveli