The Armour of Light

Its place in Kingsbridge

The Armour of Light is book 5 in the Kingsbridge series. It follows The Evening and the Morning. See the full Kingsbridge reading order.

Ken Follett's Kingsbridge novels are sweeping, doorstop-sized epics of ordinary people caught up in the great building projects and social upheavals of English history, all centred on the fictional cathedral town of Kingsbridge. The series began with The Pillars of the Earth (1989), following the decades-long construction of Kingsbridge Cathedral across the 12th century's civil war known as the Anarchy — masons, monks, and nobles thrown together by ambition, faith, and the sheer scale of building a Gothic…