Karen Maitland
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Karen Maitland is a British author
of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics. Her works include The White Room published in 1996 by Yorkshire Art Circus, Company of Liars
, published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; The Owl Killers, published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. She also has a joint Medieval Murderers novel, "The Sacred Stone", written together with the medieval crime writers Bernard Knight
, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory
and Philip Gooden. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin in March 2011.
She has worked as a writer and editor on a number of cross-cultural books including "Poems of Cultural Diversity" and "Cinders in the Wind".
Maitland is dyslexic and resides in medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest
British literature
British Literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. By far the largest part of British literature is written in the English language, but there are bodies of written works in Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Jèrriais,...
of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics. Her works include The White Room published in 1996 by Yorkshire Art Circus, Company of Liars
Company of Liars
Company of Liars is a 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....
, published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; The Owl Killers, published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. She also has a joint Medieval Murderers novel, "The Sacred Stone", written together with the medieval crime writers Bernard Knight
Bernard Knight
Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. He was awarded the CBE in 1993 for services to forensic medicine....
, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory
Susanna Gregory
Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century...
and Philip Gooden. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin in March 2011.
She has worked as a writer and editor on a number of cross-cultural books including "Poems of Cultural Diversity" and "Cinders in the Wind".
Maitland is dyslexic and resides in medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood. Continuously forested since the end of the Ice Age, Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve today encompasses 423 hectares surrounding the village of...
Awards
- "The White Room", was short listed for The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
- "Company of Liars" was chosen as a Waterstone Book-of-the-Year
- "The Owl Killers" was a 2009 Shirley Jackson AwardShirley Jackson AwardThe Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative...
finalist
Memberships
- Crime Writers' Association
- Historical Novel Society
- Society of Authors
- International Thriller Writers