In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed--"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)--and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was...
#1 New York Times Bestseller
In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweepi...
In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed--"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)--and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was...
#1 New York Times Bestseller
In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweepi...
April 1944. Die Invasion steht unmittelbar bevor. Um den Deutschen eine Landung bei Calais zu suggerieren, haben die Briten mit Gummipanzern, Pappflugzeugen und potemkinschen Kasernen das größte Täuschungsmanöver aller Zeiten in Südostengland inszeniert. Diese Geisterarmee ist so geschickt in das Funk- und Meldesystem der alliierten Streitkräfte eingewoben, dass selbst Canaris Abwehrapparat sie für echt hält. Dennwas Canaris nicht weiß: Seine Spione in England sitzen hinter Gittern und funken nur Spielmaterial - bis auf einen: Henry Faber, genannt die Nadel. Lange vor dem Krieg nach...
April 1944. Die Invasion steht unmittelbar bevor. Um den Deutschen eine Landung bei Calais zu suggerieren, haben die Briten mit Gummipanzern, Pappflug...
"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." --The Huffington Post
Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and...
"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." --The Huffington Post
Code to Zero is a compelling thriller set in 1950s America during the Cold War, from Ken Follett the no.1 bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth.
Code to Zero is a compelling thriller set in 1950s America during the Cold War, from Ken Follett the no.1 bestselling author of The Pillars of the Ear...
"‘Two days after Notre Dame burned, I flew to Paris to appear on the TV programme La Grande Librairie for a discussion about cathedrals. The following morning I had breakfast at the Hotel Bristol with my French publisher and she asked me to write a short book about Notre Dame and what it means to all of us. She said she would donate the publisher’s profits to the rebuilding fund and, if I wished, I could do the same with my royalties. Yes, I said; of course, I’d love to.’ Ken Follett
In aid of the crucial restoration work to restore Paris’s great cathedral, Notre-Dame: A Short...
"‘Two days after Notre Dame burned, I flew to Paris to appear on the TV programme La Grande Librairie for a discussion about cathedrals. The followi...