''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
Plague or The Plague may refer to:
Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
*Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis''
* An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
* A pandemic caused by such a disease
* A swarm of pe ...
.
This novel reached a large number of people in Britain due to the first few chapters being given away with
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was f ...
as a mini-paperback, in 2008.
Sources
www.karenmaitland.comwww.amazon.co.uk
Historical novels
2008 novels
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