Name Karen Maitland | Role Author | |
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Nominations Sue Feder Historical Mystery Books Company of Liars, The Owl Killers, The Gallows Curse, The Falcons of Fire and I Similar People Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight, C J Sansom |
Karen maitland author of the gallows curse talks about her latest book and medieval history
Karen Maitland (born 1956, in England) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics.
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- Karen maitland author of the gallows curse talks about her latest book and medieval history
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Her works include The White Room published in 1996 by Yorkshire Art Circus; Company of Liars published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; and The Owl Killers, published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin Books in March 2011.
She has co-written several titles in the Medieval Murderers series with medieval crime writers including Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden.
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