Karen Maitland (born 1956) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics.[1]
Her works include The White Room published in 1996 by Yorkshire Art Circus;[2] 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".[1] Maitland is dyslexic and resides in the medieval city of Lincoln, not very far from Sherwood Forest.[3][4]
Bibliography
editStand alone novels
- The White Room (1996)
- Company of Liars (2008)
- The Owl Killers (2009)
- The Gallows Curse (2011)
- The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012)
- The Vanishing Witch (2014)[5]
- The Raven's Head (2015)[6]
- The Plague Charmer (2016)
- A Gathering of Ghosts (2018)
Medieval Murderers
- The Sacred Stone (2010)
(Written with Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden) - Hill of Bones (2011)
- The False Virgin (2013)
- The Deadliest Sin (2014)
Awards
edit- "The White Room", was short listed for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.[1]
- "Company of Liars" was chosen as a Waterstone Book-of-the-Year[4]
- "The Owl Killers" was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist
Memberships
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Karen Maitland". Hilaryjohnson.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ^ "Karen Maitland". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ^ Shirley, The (12 July 2010). "The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog: Karen Maitland Interview (with Charles Tan)". Shirleyjacksonawards.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ^ a b Raffel, Keith (19 February 2009). "The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland Archives – The Big Thrill". Thrillerwriters.org. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ^ Upcoming4.me (15 April 2014). "The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Upcoming4.me (9 October 2014). "The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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