Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett (used) humour

Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett (used) humourUsed, very good condition The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert

class and political conviction

as well as the lessons learnt and an illustration of the dangers and constraints are brought out for the benefit of others working in this evolving field

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a painter from Boston who inadvertently stumbles into the tangled web of his family's past

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It was also a land withered by drought and hunger

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Old fears from his childhood come rushing back as his mother blames their misfortune on soccer

this title provides an account of Dockside 'romance' at the Southern tip of Africa

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