A Column of Fire (The Kingsbridge Novels)

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Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. I’m not a history buff, so I cannot comment if any of the events were accurate, but I have never picked a fiction book with the intention of learning anything, so If you are looking for accuracy this may not be the right one, but if you are just looking for a form of entertainment, then you are in it for a fascinating trip. The familiar history of King Henry’s break with the Catholic church and the chaos that introduced into what was then a provincial and unimportant country is the enabling event that sets the plot in motion.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.In the third book in the Kingsbridge series, A Column of Fire, I am again thoroughly exhilarated and awarding 5 stars. 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.

He builds a relationship with young Sylvie Palot, going so far as to marry her so she will eventually reveal the members of the Protestant community to him. Set partly in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, it is a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.

I would recommend it to those who have made their way through the others two, in hopes that they will find as much enjoyment in the historical references as I did. Some of Follett's tried and tested formula is present here - namely, a central starcrossed romance and despicable villains - which keeps the pages turning, but I think this book overall is a move away from a style I really enjoyed in the previous books. Ken Follett was only twenty-seven when he wrote the award-winning EYE OF THE NEEDLE, which became an international bestseller. So in theory, this is such a statement about people and life and the lessons we fail to learn century after century. Over a turbulent half century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva.