Each book of “The Century Trilogy” begins with a six page character list. ( The Fall of Giants, author Ken Follett published by Signet sold by Penguin Group, 2011 983 pages) It is very daunting when you pick up a book that is about 4″ thick and 983 pages. This is a massive undertaking of 2919 pages of action, description and dialogue. Follett: “Well, I think all the time about my readers … All the time every page, I think ‘Will readers like this? Will they believe that this could happen? Will they care?’ And most importantly, ‘Will they want to know what happens next?’ I think about that constantly.” Ken Follett wrote an amazing historical epic called “The Century Trilogy:” The Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, and Edge of Eternity. 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.Once Ken Follett was asked during an interview, “What is the core difference in your relationship with your audience (Interview with Jennifer Byrne for ABC Book Show May 2011). 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. 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. 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 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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