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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.This novel reached a large number of people in Britain due to the first few chapters being given away with The Daily Telegraph as a mini-paperback in 2008.[citation needed]The novel is set in the year 1348 when England was in the grip of the Black Plague.