The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

Series:The Joubert Family Chronicles
Format:Paperback / softback 608 pages
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Pan Books
ISBN:9781035043231
Published:10 Apr 2025
Classifications:Historical adventure, Historical fiction
Weight:412g
Dimensions:197 x 130 x 35 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
Country of Origin:GB
Tariff Codes:49019900
For sale in:    United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, (See full list)
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Description
The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller'A tour de force' – The ObserverBringing sixteenth-century France vividly to life, Kate Mosse’s historical epic The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love, betrayal, war and conspiracy. Carcassonne, 1562.

On the eve of the wars that will tear France apart, nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot, Piet Reydon, profoundly reshapes her destiny.

For Piet has a mission of his own, and he will need Minou’s help if he is to get out of La Cité alive . . .

A thrilling historical adventure and a heartbreaking boy-meets-girl love story, The Burning Chambers is the first volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles. Continue the story with The City of Tears.

Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:'Historical fiction to devour' – Anthony Horowitz, bestselling author of Close to Death, on The Burning Chambers'An utterly absorbing epic' – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship