Isaac was so absorbed in his careful winding of this treasure that he actually forgot the Dean. Then a bell clanged impatiently ... By mistake he had put one of the watch papers he kept for his humbler clients inside the Dean's watch.
Jocelyn Irvin, a dispirited Boer War veteran, opens a bookshop in an English cathedral town and produces a play started by a former occupant.
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.
***LONGLISTED: THE HWA GOLD CROWN 2021*** ***A Sunday Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021: "An ambitious, epic debut."*** ***A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*** A Times...
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Ken Follett will donate his proceeds from this book to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine.