Kate’s CHAPTERS

1961 BORN TO RICHARD, A SOLICITOR WITH AN ACTING PAST, AND BARBARA, AN ECONOMICS TEACHER AND AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST. GROWS UP IN FISHBOURNE, NEAR CHICHESTER IN WEST SUSSEX (SEEN BOTTOM LEFT IN 1967/8)

1984 GRADUATES FROM OXFORD, WHERE SHE READ ENGLISH, AND FALLS INTO PUBLISHING THROUGH A TEMP JOB AT HODDER & STOUGHTON

1992 QUITS PUBLISHING, AFTER BEING OFFERED A PROMOTION TO RUN SEVERAL IMPRINTS, TO WRITE HER FIRST NON-FICTION BOOK, Becoming a Mother, OUT THE FOLLOWING YEAR

1996 CO-FOUNDS THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION (THEN THE ORANGE PRIZE) IN RESPONSE TO AN ALL-MALE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST (KATE IS SEEN BELOW RIGHT WITH CATHERINE MAYER, JUNE SARPONG AND KIT DE WAAL, 2018)

1996 EXPERIMENTS WITH LITERARY FICTION WITH Eskimo Kissing. ANOTHER HIGH-CONCEPT BOOK, Crucifix Lane, FOLLOWS

2005 Labyrinth, A BIG TIME-SLIP NOVEL SET IN 13TH-CENTURY FRANCE, TOPS BESTSELLER LISTS WORLDWIDE

2013 APPOINTED OBE FOR SERVICES TO LITERATURE

2018 RELEASES The Burning Chambers, THE FIRST IN A QUARTET OF NOVELS, COVERING THE HUGUENOT DIASPORA FROM 16TH-CENTURY FRANCE TO 19TH-CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA

2021 PUBLISHES An Extra Pair of Hands, ABOUT LOOKING AFTER HER ELDERLY PARENTS AND MOTHER-IN-LAW

2022 A BUMPER YEAR SEES THE PAPERBACK RELEASE OF The City of Tears, The Black Mountain FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT, THE PLAY OF The Taxidermist’s Daughter, A NEW MISS MARPLE STORY AND Warrior Queens to Quiet Revolutionaries