Freedom is hard-won and easily lost – which makes it a good story, writes Ken Follett
In today’s world, free people are in a minority. It’s hardly surprising. Those who have power are rarely willing to give it up and, by definition, are well-placed to hold onto it. What I’ve learned is that freedom is hard-won and easily lost. To dramatise this truth in fiction has been my life’s work, writes […]
Never REVIEW: Ken Follett goes nuclear in new crime novel
Never have I been more inclined to dislike a book. The size and scale of Ken Follett’s first contemporary thriller for more than a decade is not only daunting but Follett also pretentiously hopes “it transcends the thriller genre in the way that The Godfather transcended the genre of the crime novel”. But, from the […]
Ken Follett: Global war? Never say Never again
EVEN THOUGH it takes place in the present, my new novel, Never, was inspired by events of more than 100 years ago. I originally studied the path to the First World War when I was writing my book Fall Of Giants in the late Noughties and it struck me then that no national leader actually […]
Ken Follett: Global war? Never say Never again
EVEN THOUGH it takes place in the present, my new novel, Never, was inspired by events of more than 100 years ago. I originally studied the path to the First World War when I was writing my book Fall Of Giants in the late Noughties and it struck me then that no national leader actually […]
Never REVIEW: Ken Follett goes nuclear in new crime novel
Never have I been more inclined to dislike a book. The size and scale of Ken Follett’s first contemporary thriller for more than a decade is not only daunting but Follett also pretentiously hopes “it transcends the thriller genre in the way that The Godfather transcended the genre of the crime novel”. But, from the […]
Ken Follett: Author makes plea to save our libraries
I LEARNT to read early and it fast became a huge pleasure for me. That’s partly because some of the other regular pleasures of childhood were denied me. Daily Express :: Books Feed