![]() “You get a different kind of understanding through your imagination, with the help of the author's imagination, of why people did the things they did."įollett is there with his wife Barbara, who was for 13 years a member of Parliament and was also the minister for culture in the recently defeated Labour government of Gordon Brown. That means Follett hardly has time to enjoy his beach house in Antigua, where he is taking the call from BookPage, he says, in his library, “a white room with white bookshelves and very large open windows that look out onto the beach.” “So I work six days a week, and for the first draft I try to write six pages a day, which is 1,500 words a day.” “If at all possible, I want to publish these books at two-year intervals,” Follett says. Because readers who compulsively turn all 985 pages of Fall of Giants, the gripping first book in the Century Trilogy, will not want to wait long for its sequel. ![]() To complete his hugely ambitious trilogy of historical novels about the 20th century, Ken Follett has set himself a punishing writing schedule. ![]()
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