Karen Maitland

1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant …

Company of Liars is a 2008 historical novel by Karen Maitland, set in the fourteenth century. The setting is a Britain which is being decimated by a pandemic known as the Plague. This novel reached a large number of people in Britain due to the first few chapters being given away with The Daily Telegraph as a …