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An eight-part mini-series to be broadcast on Channel 4 next week is to attempt to convert the success of Follett's 1989 hit, set in 12th-century England, into television gold.

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Follett's story revolves around the fortunes of a stonemason, played by Sewell, and the slow progress of the first cathedral to be built in England in the Gothic style.

Has Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth got the winning ingredients? Vanessa Thorpe 2010

Because The Pillars of the Earth (Channel 4, Saturday), a super-lavish adaptation of Ken Follett's epic historical novel, is the new Rome.

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Set in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, Follett's saga charts the lives of key characters during the long cathedral-building project and reflects the conflict between the two presiding powers of the era: the landed aristocrats and the church.

Has Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth got the winning ingredients? Vanessa Thorpe 2010

The Pillars Of The Earth9pm, Channel 4A starry cast headed by Ian McShane star in this adaptation of Ken Follett's novel, brought to you in manageable 100-minute chunks.

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Thus it is with Ken Follett's “Eye of the Needle”.

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Follett's mainly known for spy thrillers like Eye of the Needle, but when he published a very different story, The Pillars of the Earth, twenty years ago, it became by far his most popular novel ever.

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"The margins in the textbook business are low," said Gary Shapiro , Follett's senior vice president of intellectual properties, adding that giving Apple a 30% cut of textbooks that cost $53 on average would force it to operate at a loss.

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Follett's masterwork is marbled with a number of other historically-correct elements that lend it an air of verisimilitude, and which leave the reader, as he finally puts the book down late at night, shaking his head at what might have been.

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Can Ridley Scott now perform the same trick with Ken Follett's bestselling novel The Pillars of the Earth, about the Middle Ages?

Has Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth got the winning ingredients? Vanessa Thorpe 2010