World Without End, Ken Follett

Eighteen years after The Pillars of the Earthhit the shelf, Ken Follett brings us its anticipated sequel World Without End. The storytakes place two centuries after Pillars, in the same town of Kingsbridge. The beautiful Gothic cathedral, built by the townspeople in Pillars, is once again at the centre of a web of conflicting emotions. This time, the people of Kingsbridge find themselves at a turning point in their lives with new ideas about medicine, commerce, justice and architecture. A war is taking place in this little town – between old ways and new progressive minds. And all of this is set against the backdrop of The Black Death, the greatest natural disaster to ever hit us.
Macmillan, Rs 995