“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(). Author: Karen Maitland Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: Category: Fiction Languages: en Pages: View: Get Book. Company Of Liars Company Of Liars by Karen Maitland, Company Of Liars Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Company Of Liars books, The year is and the first plague victim has reached English www.doorway.ru erupts around the . 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/5.
Book Review: Company of Liars by Karen Maitland Company of Liars. Here is the blurb on Goodreads: The year is The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them. Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction. Praise for Company of Liars "[Maitland] brings to life a medieval England of muddy streets and half-naked children fighting each other for pieces of dog dung to sell to the tanners, as sheep-stealers swing. 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 grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward.
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. Company Of Liars by Karen Maitland, Liars And Thieves A Company Of Liars Short Story Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Liars And Thieves A Company Of Liars Short Story books, Liars and Thieves is an exclusive e-novella featuring characters from Karen Maitland's much-loved Company of Liars, set against the backdrop of the. 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.
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