He was chair of the National Year of Reading, a joint initiative between government and businesses. Ken has been active in numerous literacy charities and was president of Dyslexia Action for ten years. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth and is set around the year 1,000, when Kingsbridge was an Anglo-Saxon settlement threatened by Viking invaders.
Ken’s new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007. It reached number one on best-seller lists everywhere and was turned into a major television series produced by Ridley Scott, which aired in 2010. In 1989, Ken’s epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth, was published. It remains one of Ken’s most popular books. A World War II thriller set in England, this book earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.īorn on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995. Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power. A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and as she begins to realize that everyone around her is engaged in a constant, brutal battle for power, it becomes clear that a single misstep could be catastrophic. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined.
Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east.
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