Kate Mosse celebrates 20 years of Labyrinth with nationwide tour and special edition hardback

Kate Mosse will celebrate the 20th anniversary of her global bestseller with a 33-date tour and a special edition hardback, "bringing the story behind the story of Labyrinth to the stage for the first time". 

Orion said: "To celebrate this milestone anniversary of the multi-million number one international bestseller that took the world by storm, Kate is taking to the road with her inspirational, unforgettable one-woman show, ’Labyrinth Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth’. The 33-date theatre tour starts in Stafford on 26th February and runs nationwide until 10th April 2025.

"In addition to the theatre tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of this beloved modern classic, Orion imprint Phoenix will publish a lavish special edition hardback in February 2025. A sumptuously produced limited edition, it will feature a new introduction by Sir Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Kate Mosse."

The publisher said the tour is "bringing the story behind the story of Labyrinth to the stage for the first time", featuring "theatre at its most dazzling, immersive and dramatic with music, imagery, breath-taking photography and film".

Orion added: "Kate will both reveal the real history and mysteries that inspired her novel and take the audience on an epic journey across the breathtaking landscape of the Languedoc—of Carcassonne, Toulouse, Chartres and the Pyrenees.

"As Kate revisits the brutal 13th-century wars between Catholics and Cathars, Ancient Egyptian legend, 20th-century Nazi-conspiracy theories and modern-day Grail legends that still surround the legendary mountain of Montségur where the so-called heretics met their fate, she will also share the secrets behind her writing and the highs and the lows that helped her conjure up this timeless and beloved modern classic."

First published by Orion in 2005, Mosse’s Labyrinth became an international bestseller from Japan to Norway, France to Argentina, China to the USA. An award-winning number one bestseller across the world, it has been translated into 38 languages. A TV adaptation of the novel for Film4 was released in 2012, directed by Christopher Smith and starring Tom Felton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Vanessa Kirby, Sebastian Stan and John Hurt.