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Company Of Liars

by: Karen Maitland (author)

The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is -in fact - travelling with them.The ill-assorted company - a scarred... show more

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Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin

Pages no: 592

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Adventure, European Literature, British Literature, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Horror

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In a network of lines that enlace rated it

11 years ago

http://Rhi.booklikes.com In a network of lines that enlace 4.0 An absorbing piece of historical fiction

text An absorbing piece of historical fiction

I’ve not read much historical fiction; what I have is limited to a particular historical figure, and I attributed my interest to this. So picking up a novel where my knowledge of the time period was limited was a little a daunting. I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy it. Turns out it was brilliant. It’...

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Bettie's Books rated it

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bookshelves: historical-fiction, mystery-thriller, plague-disease, books-with-a-passport Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: vivienne Read in May, 2008 An enjoyable and mildly supernatural romp through superstitious and pestilent times; some of those story lines were easy to see through but that didn't ...

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meeplemaiden rated it

12 years ago

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I think the cover of this book first attracted my attention to it while browsing in my local bookstore. It stuck out from the crowd so I read the blurb and took it home with me (after paying for it, of course). It's a kind of medieval road movie with a bit of murder and mystery thrown in. Actually, ...

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Nocturnal Book Reviews rated it

13 years ago

http://karakarinanbr.booklikes.com Nocturnal Book Reviews 0.0 Company of Liars, a Novel of the Plague

text Company of Liars, a Novel of the Plague

way too heavy for me, so I couldn't finish the book.

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The City Of Invention rated it

13 years ago

http://briankeaney.booklikes.com The City Of Invention 3.0 A Chaucerian Story With A Modern Flavour

text A Chaucerian Story With A Modern Flavour

Set in the Middle Ages, Company of Liars is the story of a group of travellers, thrown together by chance, wandering across England at the time of the Great Plague. It's an apparently naturalistic story with fantastical elements sown into the plot. The individuals who make up the company all guard t...

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