Circle of Days

📚 Why We Recommend It

Ken Follett returns with an epic that travels farther back than his cathedral sagas yet feels just as intimate, situating readers in Neolithic Wiltshire where a flint miner named Seft, a visionary priestess named Joia, and Seft’s beloved Neen converge at the Midsummer Fair, and where the rival claims of herders, farmers, and woodlanders escalate until the audacious dream of raising a stone circle tests not only muscle and ingenuity but also love, loyalty, jealousy, and revenge, so that the question of how Stonehenge was built is inseparable from the deeper question of why people risk everything to build together at all.
Publishing in the United States on September 23, 2025 from Grand Central Publishing, with a large-print edition available, the novel grew out of Follett’s encounter with Mike Pitts’s How to Build Stonehenge and relies on imaginative deduction to fill the archaeological gaps, which means that readers who crave the sweep of The Pillars of the Earth combined with the tactile specifics of labor, ritual, and community will find a sustained, deeply human narrative that marries engineering wonder to emotional stakes from first page to last.