Labyrinth author launches European literature festival with speech celebrating ‘long shared common histories’
The bestselling novelist Kate Mosse has warned that “we stand at the moment in Europe in perilous times” as she opened a celebration of European literature at the British Library on Wednesday night.
As the UK stands on the brink of the EU referendum in June, Mosse spoke of how some politicians are encouraging people “who have been neighbours for years … to see ourselves only as people in conflict rather than … all Europeans. We all have connections and love and long shared common histories and goals and stories that go all the way back to the earliest words written.
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