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Карен Мейтленд — новинки
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- 17 изданий на 3 языках
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Карен Мейтленд
The Raven's Head
ISBN: 9781472215048 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Headline Аннотация
Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to destroy his master. With the foolish arrogance of youth, he attempts blackmail but the attempt fails and Vincent finds himself on the run and in possession of an intricately carved silver raven's head.
Any attempt to sell the head fails ... until Vincent tries to palm it off on the intimidating Lord Sylvain - unbeknown to Vincent, a powerful Alchemist with an all-consuming quest. Once more Vincent's life is in danger because Sylvain and his neighbours, the menacing White Canons, consider him a predestined sacrifice in their shocking experiment.
Chilling and with compelling hints of the supernatural, The Raven's Head is a triumph for Karen Maitland, Queen of the Dark Ages. -
Karen Maitland
Falcons of Fire and Ice
ISBN: 978-1-40591176-4 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd. Язык: Английский Аннотация
"The Falcons of Fire and Ice" by Karen Maitland, author of the hugely popular "Company of Liars", is a powerful historical thriller which takes you right back to the darkest corners of the 16th century. Intelligently written and meticulously researched, it is a real treat for all fans of CJ Sansom and Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose". "A tour de force: dark and woven with the supernatural". ("Daily Mail"). 1564, Lisbon. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured and burned. Any who oppose the Church's will realize that silence is preferable to a slow and agonizing death. Isabela, daughter of the Falconer at the Royal Court, is about to be caught in the Church's terrifying schemes. The slaughter of two of the King's precious white falcons sees her father arrested and imprisoned. As punishment he and his family will be killed unless the birds are replaced. Isabela, young and headstrong, decides that only she can save her father. These birds are impossibly rare, and she will have to travel far and into strange lands to find them to clear her father's name. It is a journey that will take her into a dark and dangerous world filled with menacing people driven by fearful beliefs. And, unfortunately for Isabela, the Church has sent a companion to ensure she never returns...Step back in time with Karen Maitland's "Dark Tales" and discover a world full of imagination in "The Falcons of Fire and Ice" - 'a thrilling horrible vision of the Dark Ages' Metro. Karen Maitland travelled and worked in many parts of the United Kingdom before finally settling in the beautiful medieval city of Lincoln. She is the author of "The White Room", "Company of Liars", "The Owl Killers" and "The Gallows Curse". The latter three titles are available as Penguin paperbacks. -
Karen Maitland
The Gallows Curse
ISBN: 978-0-241-95836-0 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Penguin Язык: Английский Аннотация
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the…
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Karen Maitland
The Owl Killers
ISBN: 978-0-141-03189-7 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Penguin Books Язык: Английский Аннотация
England, 1321. Deep in the heart of countryside lies an isolated village governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters - theirs is a pagan world of terror and blackmail, where neighbour denounces neighbour and sin is punishable by murder. This dark status quo is disturbed by the arrival of a house of religious women, who establish a community outside the village.…
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Karen Maitland
The Gallows Curse
ISBN: 9780141047447 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd Язык: Английский Аннотация
The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin. In the village of Gastmere, this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying…
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Karen Maitland
The Gallows Curse
ISBN: 0718156358, 9780718156350 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Michael Joseph Язык: Английский Аннотация
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the…
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Карен Мейтленд
Маскарад лжецов
ISBN: 978-5-699-45085-5 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Эксмо, Домино Язык: Русский Аннотация
1348 год, самый страшный год в истории Англии. Великая чума пришла из Европы на Британские острова, не щадя ни судей, ни воров, ни облаченных в рясы священников. Странная компания путешествует по разоренной чумой стране: старик-калека, торгующий фальшивыми мощами; музыкант; бродячий фокусник; молодая пара, ожидающая ребенка; юноша с крылом лебедя вместо руки;…
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Karen Maitland
Company of Liars
ISBN: 978-0141031910 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Penguin Язык: Английский Аннотация
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 trader in holy relics, a conjurer, two musicians, a healer and a deformed storyteller - are all concealing secrets and lies. And at their heart is the strange, cold child - Narigorm - who reads the runes.
But as law and order breaks down across the country and the battle for survival becomes ever more fierce, Narigorm mercilessly compels each of her fellow travellers to reveal the truth ... and each in turn is driven to a cruel and unnatural death. -
Karen Maitland
Company of Liars
ISBN: 978-0141038339 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Penguin Язык: Английский Аннотация
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.
The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.
Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group’s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.
Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction. -
Karen Maitland
The Owl Killers
ISBN: 9780718153205 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Michael Joseph Язык: Английский Аннотация
England, 1321. Deep in the heart of countryside lies an isolated village governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters - theirs is a pagan world of terror and blackmail, where neighbour denounces neighbour and sin is punishable by murder. This dark status quo is disturbed by the arrival of a house of religious women, who establish a community outside the village. Why…