Description
| Product ID: | 9781447278832 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Kingsbridge Novels |
| Title: | The Armour of Light |
| Authors: | Author: Ken Follett |
| Page Count: | 752 |
| Subjects: | Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Historical adventure fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Historical adventure, Sagas, Historical fiction, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Taking the reader straight into the heart of late 18th century Europe and the Industrial and French Revolutions, the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light, is No. 1 international bestseller Ken Follett’s most ambitious novel to date. Epic, addictive and page-turning fiction at its very best. <p><b>The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.</b><br><br><b>Revolution is in the air</b><br><br>1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert.<br><br><b>Kingsbridge is on the edge</b><br><br>Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge’s prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart.<br><br><b>Tyranny is on the horizon</b><br><br>Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people – including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal’s inventive and headstrong son – will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression . . .<br><br><b>Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, <i>The Armour of Light</i> is master storyteller Ken Follett’s most ambitious novel to date.</b><br><br>'Follett's storytelling skills make their adventures riveting' - <i>The Times</i><br><br>'An effortlessly engaging and entertaining read' - <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>'Bold in scale and meticulously researched' - <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'The plague scenes are expertly handled. Where Follett excels is in telling a yarn' - <i>Independent</i><br><br><b>More than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no.1 bestselling phenomenon returns.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-26 |
