On the nobler side of the ledger is Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell), who contracts to build a grand new cathedral with the Prior of Kingsbridge, Philip (Matthew Mac-fadyen), a pious sort at odds with both Waleran and the Hamleighs. Here, Ken tells us more about the Kingsbridge Novels and how each book in the series covers a different period in the history of this much-loved fictional town.Such projects are often only as good as their villains, and “Pillars” boasts two fabulous ones: Ian McShane as Bishop Waleran, the scheming clergyman who will stop at nothing in pursuit of power and the amoral Regan Hamleigh (“Viva Blackpool’s” Sarah Parish), the architect of her own plots - sometimes in concert with Waleran - to consolidate her family’s power and secure land and titles for her brutal thug of a son (David Oakes). This is a time when people began to demand what we call the rule of law, which means that disputes are settled according to rules, regardless of how rich or powerful you are. And the phrase is Biblical, of course: ‘And the evening and the morning were the first day’. Here, Ken explains the inspiration behind the book: 'The story is set at the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of the Middle Ages, so it’s an evening and a morning. The fourth Kingsbridge novel, The Evening and the Morning, is set around the year 1,000, when England was constantly under attack from Vikings and would soon be conquered by the Normans. Meanwhile, Europe turns against England when Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and finds herself beset by plots to dethrone her.
Beginning in 1558, it charts the star-crossed romance between Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald over half a century. The saga continues in the third novel, A Column of Fire. From that moment, their lives are bound together by love and revenge, as they confront the Black Death and the beginning of the hundred years war. The sequel, World Without End, is set two centuries later and follows the lives of four children who witness two men being killed the day after Halloween. Ken Follett's bestselling Kingsbridge Novels are loved around the world for their historical detail and epic storytelling. The story begins in The Pillars of the Earth, which centres on the struggles of Prior Phillip and his mason-turned-architect Tom as they attempt to build the greatest gothic cathedral in the medieval world.
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