![]() ![]() The Pillars of the Earth is the first in The Kingsbridge Novels series, followed by World Without End and A Column of Fire. ![]() He lives with his family in London and Hertfordshire. Soon build tensions between good and evil, turning church against state, and brother against brother. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, was published to critical acclaim. Facing enemies that would thwart them, they will stop at nothing to fulfil their grand plans of Kingsbridge. ![]() He decides, then, to build Kingsbridge the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Ī World of High Ideals and Savage CrueltyĪs the prior recruits his mason, so begins a journey of ambition, anarchy and the struggle for absolute power. A resourceful man, he knows that if his town is to survive at all, it must find a way to truly thrive. Philip is the church prior of Kingsbridge. ![]() With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. An epic, spellbinding tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. ![]()
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