Here, Ken tells us more about the Kingsbridge Novels and how each book in the series covers a different period in the history of this much-loved fictional town. This is a time when people began to demand what we call the rule of law, which means that disputes are settled according to rules, regardless of how rich or powerful you are. And the phrase is Biblical, of course: ‘And the evening and the morning were the first day’. Here, Ken explains the inspiration behind the book: 'The story is set at the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of the Middle Ages, so it’s an evening and a morning. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshas they made their way through the twentieth century. The fourth Kingsbridge novel, The Evening and the Morning, is set around the year 1,000, when England was constantly under attack from Vikings and would soon be conquered by the Normans. Ken Folletts extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. Meanwhile, Europe turns against England when Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and finds herself beset by plots to dethrone her. Beginning in 1558, it charts the star-crossed romance between Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald over half a century. The first in Ken Folletts bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. The saga continues in the third novel, A Column of Fire. From that moment, their lives are bound together by love and revenge, as they confront the Black Death and the beginning of the hundred years war. The sequel, World Without End, is set two centuries later and follows the lives of four children who witness two men being killed the day after Halloween. Ken Follett's bestselling Kingsbridge Novels are loved around the world for their historical detail and epic storytelling. The story begins in The Pillars of the Earth, which centres on the struggles of Prior Phillip and his mason-turned-architect Tom as they attempt to build the greatest gothic cathedral in the medieval world.

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