The Armour of Light

<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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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>The 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>