In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world using the Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel occur twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the a huge selection of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed-“it will keep you, fascinate you, surround you” (Chicago Tribune)-and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.

World Without End happens in the same city of Kingsbridge, two generations following the townspeople finished building the about World Without End exquisite Gothic cathedral that was in the centre of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the guts of a web of like and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of people find themselves at a crossroad of fresh suggestions- about medication, commerce, structures, and justice. In a global where proponents from the aged ways fiercely fight those with intensifying thoughts, the intrigue and stress quickly reach a boiling point against the damaging backdrop of the greatest natural catastrophe ever to strike the individual race-the Black Death.

Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new lease of life into the epic historical novel and once again demonstrates Ken Follett is a masterful author writing near the top of his craft.