I have to admit, I was more than a little surprised when I came to this book on Goodreads to leave a review and saw all the glowing reviews. In 2005, the City of Salisbury commemorated his services to the city by naming one of the streets leading off its medieval market place 'Rutherfurd Walk'. He is also a Patron of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre) in Dublin.

He has two children.Įdward Rutherfurd is a Life Member of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, the Salisbury Civic Society, and the Friends of Chawton House, which is located in Jane Austen's village and dedicated to the study of women writers. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe. His books have been translated into twenty languages.Įdward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia LONDON THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century.

Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury.

Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing.

The Wilsons and the Shockleys, locked in a cycle of revenge and rivalry for more than 400 years the Masons, who pour their inspired love of stone into the creation of Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral the Porters, descended from a young Roman soldier in exile and the aristocratic Godfreys, who will fall to the very bottom of the social ladder before their fortunes revive.Īs their fates and fortunes intertwine over the course of the centuries, through struggle and adventure, their greater destinies offer a fascinating glimpse into the future.Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and prosperity.Ī masterpiece of breathtaking scope, from the Ice Age to the present day, Sarum traces the entire turbulent course of English history through the epic saga of five families. *** 30th Anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of England - now with a new introduction from Edward Rutherfurd ***

Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd