--- product_id: 523795689 title: "A Column of Fire" brand: "ken follett" price: "€ 21.97" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/523795689-a-column-of-fire store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # A Column of Fire **Brand:** ken follett **Price:** € 21.97 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Column of Fire by ken follett - **How much does it cost?** € 21.97 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/523795689-a-column-of-fire) ## Best For - ken follett enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted ken follett brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A Column of Fire ## Images ![A Column of Fire - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pVFjVpNWL.jpg) ![A Column of Fire - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91W-Ht4OKyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A historical fiction , touching real events , beautifully presented. *by V***H on Reviewed in India on 18 October 2023* A Column of Fire was an ambitious project. It takes the reader to a Europe in the grip of religious war . The whole of Europe then was Christian yet these people fought like rabid dogs with each other by calling themselves Catholic and Protestant. Plots were conspired to replace the Kings and Queens, sympathetic to either of the denomination. Such was the situation that if one was a Protestant under the Catholic ruler , he/she would simply be slayed for that very reason. Conversely , under Protestant regime Catholics were butchered for treason. To make things complicated most of the royal families and aristocracy had members half Catholics and half Protestants . A Column of Fire starts from the beginning of the end of ultra catholic Mary Tudor , runs through the period of Elizabeth - I - a Protestant, and settles down in the era of James Stuart - who was either of the two depending on the situation . The story takes the reader to France , particularly Paris , to Spain , to Scotland , and of course England - London, and to a fictional town of Kingsbridge. It covers many things but the massacre on St Bartholomew's Day were 60,000 Protestants were slaughtered on the streets of Paris was quite graphic. Mary Stuart - the queen of the Scot and Mother of the James Stuart - her beheading by Elizabeth - I was shocking. Reader has seen her entire life right from when She was just 10 years old and in the end one can't stop feeling sorry for her . Gun powder treason plot , defeat of Spanish Armada by English navy, capture of English colony by French etc., are some of the notable events that a reader will come across. The author leans towards Protestant faith. Elizabeth -I is shown as loving , sensitive, and a mercurial queen. Protagonist of the story Ned Willard and his love triangle with Margery and Sylvie feels very warm and romantic types will enjoy the heart breaking events. Margery and Sylvie are shown as strong characters. All in all A Column of Fire is a top class novel. Writing is easy and fuels the imagination and after few pages , readers, mind will start seeing the images as one reads on.. this is a hall mark of a good writing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Successor *by D***R on Reviewed in India on 4 November 2017* I read Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth when I was fourteen, and it was like being hit on the chest with something heavy (maybe the book itself - it was one of the longest and heaviest I had read till then). I loved it absolutely - the descriptions of the cathedral being built in Kingsbridge, the beautiful women and their drama-filled lives, the rich imagery and narrative. Years later, visiting an actual medieval cathedral for the first time, many of the terms the audio guide used were familiar, because I had already "lived" through the building of a cathedral.A Column of Fire is the third book in the Kingsbridge series. Strictly speaking, it's not a sequel - it's set many centuries after the first one, and the only thing that connects the books is the setting of Kingsbridge. I'm not sure how World Without End (the second in the series) is, but A Column of Fire isn't set only in Kingsbridge. A lot of the action takes place in other places - Paris and London being the main ones.One of the main threads in the book is the love story of Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald. The two are a young Kingsbridge couple in love, but Margery's family is against their union. A rich Catholic merchant family, they want her to marry into nobility and raise their social status.The Ned-Margery love story plays out against the backdrop of almost fifty years of Protestant-Catholic conflict in France and Britain in the sixteenth century. The ebb and flow of these two opposing views on Christianity makes for fascinating reading - how something as simple as a change in monarch can change the religious tendencies of an entire country. There were killings aplenty on both sides in the name of religion.Ken Follett takes actual historical events and adds to them some great characters to show us how these events impacted ordinary lives - Ned Willard of the Secret Service (a tolerant Protestant), Margery Fitgerald (a Catholic), a French villain by the name of Pierre de Aumand (a Catholic who instigates Protestant killings to further his own ends), a Protestant book-seller named Sylvie Palot.Personally, I didn't know much of the history of this period before this book. But that didn't prevent ACoF from being an engrossing read. It's a great introduction to famous personalities like Queen Elizabeth the first (she of the white face and red hair), Queen Mary Tudor of the Scots (imprisoned for decades by Elizabeth) and Duke Scarface of France. And you also get a ring-side view on historical events such as Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, Queen Mary's wedding to the French king, the failure of the attempted Spanish invasion of Britain, and the St Bartholomew's Day masscare in Paris in 1572.If I have one quibble, it is that it feels like Follett is breezing through history at too fast a pace. Fifty years is a long time to cover even for a history book. But there were certain threads in the book that could have been excluded (Ned's brother's, for example).Also did it meet the expectations I had from reading Pillars of the Earth almost two decades ago? No, it didn't. But I'm not sure I can blame Follett for that. Maybe I was more wide-eyed and open to such immersive reads then? Growing up can sometimes be a pain. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ intrigued *by A***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2024* Loved all the Kingsbridge novels. There’s plots abound in a column of fire, and sometimes just a little too much jumping from one to the other. Not difficult to follow once you quite literally ‘catch up with the plot’. 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