Ebook {Epub PDF} Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

“Karen Maitland immerses the modern reader in the daily life of the Middle Ages. Intricately plotted, Company of Liars offers complex characters today's reader can identify with. A dark Canterbury's Tale, this long winter's night of magical storytelling expertly blends history and mystery.” —Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar Award finalist and author of I Shall Not Want/5().  · Title: Company of Liars. Author: Karen Maitland. Genre: Historical, Speculative Fiction, Medieval. Publisher: Michael Joseph. Publication date: January Paperback: pages. In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human bltadwin.rus: 9. Welcome. Hello. Welcome to the website for K. J Maitland. Please take a look around. On the Book pages, you can explore the inspiration behind all of Karen’s novels, from the new Daniel Pursglove series to those with a medieval setting. On the News Events page you can discover where Karen is going appear in person and online.

Like her characters in Company of Liars, Karen Maitland has spent much of her life travelling, spending her early childhood in the sunshine of Malta and later journeying to Iceland and Greenland. In her working life she has done all kinds of jobs from hospital worker to lecturer, egg packing to dance-drama. She finally started writing in Title: Company of Liars Author: Karen Maitland Genre: Historical, Speculative Fiction, Medieval Publisher: Michael Joseph Publication date: January Paperback: pages In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is The Black Plague. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. By Sebastiano Merlino / January 4, Decem; Well, I guess we've got to start from somewhere and the easy best way to start is with the review of a book. I still find it kind of thrilling to have started this and, in a way, I am happy to start with something that I liked (which implicitly.

A midwife. And a rune-reading girl. A group of misfits band together to escape the plague. But in their midst lurks a curse darker and more malign than the pestilence they flee. Company of Liars was shortlisted in the US for a Sue Feder Memorial Award for best historical mystery of , one of the Macavity Awards. Adapt this to the 14th century with wanderers on foot attempting to escape the pestilence and you have Karen Maitland’s “Company of Liars”. Maitland’s novel is a juicy concoction of a medieval historical fiction novel mixed with spiritualism, magic, and mystery dumped into a pot of a fairy tale/fable core served to adult Imagine yourself on a cross-country road trip picking up hitch-hikers at various stops. Like her characters in Company of Liars, Karen Maitland has spent much of her life travelling, spending her early childhood in the sunshine of Malta and later journeying to Iceland and Greenland. In her working life she has done all kinds of jobs from hospital worker to lecturer, egg packing to dance-drama.