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Ken Follett with his international publishers (credit: Olivier Favre) 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’. Follett said: “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 theme of the story is the origins of a legal system that does not merely serve the ruling chieftains. The Evening and the Morning takes place around the year 1,000, when England is under constant attack from Vikings and soon to be conquered by Normans. The announcement of the book was made at the Frankfurt Book Fair where Follett met with his international publishers.
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The new book The Evening and the Morning will be published globally in autumn 2020, including by Pan Macmillan in the UK and Viking in the US.
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Ken Follett has written a prequel to his most popular novel The Pillars of the Earth, which was first published in 1989.