Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales. Barred from watching films and television by his parents, he developed an early interest in reading thanks to a local library. After studying philosophy at University College London, he became involved in centre-left politics, entering into journalism soon after. His first thriller, the wartime spy drama Eye of the Needle, became an international bestseller and has sold over 10 million copies. He then astonished everyone with his first historical novel, The Pillars of the Earth, the story of the building of a medieval cathedral, which went on to become one of the most beloved books of the twentieth century. One of the most popular authors in the world, his many books including the Kingsbridge series and the Century trilogy - a body of work which together chronicles over a thousand years of history - and his latest novel Never - which envisages how World War III could happen - have sold more than 188 million copies. A father and husband, Ken lives with his wife in England and enjoys travelling the world when he can.
Like Follett’s classic novel, Pillars of the Earth, it quickly
becomes a guilty pleasure.
*Daily Telegraph*
Perhaps no British author better illustrates the forces at work in
international publishing than can give birth to, and then grow, a
global brand . . . If such books deliver the simple pleasures of
escape, maybe they hold up a distant mirror to their readers
too.
*Independent*
An extraordinary achievement.
*Reader’s Digest*
This is hi-octane storytelling all the more powerful because the
story it tells is, mostly, true. Follett’s command of the vast
forces he unleashes is as impressive as the battle strategies of
his generals, and in many cases more so . . . overall Follett is
masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so
vividly.
*Scotsman*
Follett has managed to write an accessible and fascinating page
turner that leaves the reader wanting more, at the same time as
staying true to history.
*Sunday Business Post*
He’s pulled it off again with Fall of Giants: it’s classic Follett
with the brewing cataclysm of war given a human angle.
*Sunday Express*
Few works set out with such a grand concept as Ken Follett’s new
Century trilogy, but part one suggests that the series will be one
of the literary masterpieces of our time . . . while grand events
and themes are at the core of the novel, it is the richness of the
characters and the intertwining of their often disparate stories
that steal the show.
*Sunday Times*
The master storyteller Ken Follett knits together British,
American, German and Russian points of view from the start to the
end of the First World War into a fascinating and remarkably
fertile tapestry of society and politics.
*The Times*
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