The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Was the Giant’s Causeway really built by giants? Learn all about the mystery surrounding one of the United Kingdom’s greatest natural wonders.The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular geological formation in Northern Ireland that is a popular tourist destination and UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to Irish folklore, in the third century, a giant named Finn McCool was chal...

**#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club SelectionThe “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended.**“Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the ...

#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . .When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained b...

The September/October 2026 issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Ken Liu, Natalia Theodoridou, Luna Hou, Seanan McGuire, Emily Y. Teng, and P. H. Low; essays by Wil Wheaton, Mari Ness, Luke Elliott and James Bailey, and Kristiana Willsey; poetry by Kailee Pedersen, Rebecca Uhlman, Angela Liu, and Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe; interviews with Ken Liu and Emily Y. Teng by Caroline M. Yoachim; Galen Dara’s Fluid as the cover; and an editor...

A tragic accident at a prestigious boarding school sets in motion a vicious conflict of political power, greed, and lust—a “breathlessly plotted [and] relentlessly suspenseful (The New York Times) historical thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth.“A terrific page-turner.”—Los Angeles TimesIn 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young stude...

'Ken Follett can't write a bad book, and Never is his best' – Stephen KingExpertly researched and visionary in scale, international no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett’s Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a World War Three scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you transfixed until the final page . . .A stolen US army drone.A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert.A secret stas...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A MASON WITH A DREAM1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An oppressed young man longing for a better life must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for true freedom—a “gripping” (Chicago Tribune) novel from the award-winning author of The Pillars of the Earth.“An altogether entertaining reading experience.”—Minneapolis Star TribuneScotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack M...

An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of On Wings of Eagles and Lie Down With Lions. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal junior minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a se...

Look around you - what do you see? You may discover to your surprise that the people who are most at peace with money are the ones who walk nimbly between having too little and having too much. They have found a balance between indulgence and austerity; between success and happiness; between motivation and inspiration; and between any number of other poles we tend to think of as either/or choices, but which in reality are simply posts on either side of a doorway through which we must pass....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young scientist’s startling discovery plunges her into a twisted conspiracy with world-shattering implications in this electrifying novel from the award-winning author of The Pillars of the Earth.“A provocative, well-paced, and sensational biotech thriller.”—VarietyUsing a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different moth...

Ken Follett and the intrigue of World War II—"a winning formula" (Entertainment Weekly) if ever there was one. With his riveting prose and unerring instinct for suspense, the #1 New York Times bestselling author takes to the skies over Europe during the early days of the war in a most extraordinary novel. . . .It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths and shooting down ...