The Burning Chambers

The first book in a new series of historical novels by best-selling author Kate Mosse, The Burning Chambers is packed with mystery, romance, war and her trademark attention to detail. Set in France in 1562, readers are cast back to the days of the Huguenot “wars of religion”, where 19-year-old Minou Joubert – who works at her father’s bookshop – finds her world turned upside down shortly after receiving a mysterious letter, saying only “She knows that you live”.

Without realising she is in grave danger from a long-held family secret, Minou falls in love with a Huguenot convert called Piet, and becomes embroiled in a terrifying battle between the Protestants and Catholics in Toulouse. As the war draws to a bloody climax, so too does the mystery surrounding her family and bloodline. As with her previous novels in The Languedoc Trilogy, Mosse has filled the story with rich historical facts about the atrocities and religious persecution of the time that entertains and educates in equal measure.