He started to work as a trainee reporter in Cardiff on the South Wales Echo.įollett has had several novels made into movies and television mini-series: Eye of the Needle become made into an acclaimed movie, starring Donald Sutherland, and 6 novels have been made into tv mini-collection: the key to Rebecca, lie with Lions, On Wings of Eagles (1986), The third dual – the rights that are offered to CBS for $US1,400,000, a record charge at the time – and The Pillars of the Earth (2010) and international without quit (2012). After his graduation, he took a three-month course in journalism. He then become involved in Centre-Left Politics.

In 1967, he got admitted to University College, London, where he studied philosophy. His own family moved to London when he turned ten years, and he began applying himself to his studies at Harrow Weald Grammar faculty and Poole Technical university. Ken was restricted from watching movies and cartoons on Television by his parents with which he developed the habit of reading right from his childhood. His Father Martin Follett was a Tax inspector. Ken Follett was born on 5 June 1949 in Cardiff, Wales. Over 181 Million copies had been sold of his 36 books in over 80 countries and 40 different languages. Kenneth Martin Follett is a British author of thrillers and historical novels.

Publication Order of Century Trilogy Books.

Publication Order of Apples Carstairs Books as Simon Myles.

Ken Follett Books and Series in Publication Order.

What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?Ĭontinue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity. When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.īilly’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.ġ911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king.

Abridged edition, read by Dan Stevens ( Legion, Downton Abbey )

Fall of giants series