The Second Sleep - Robert Harris

All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he believes - about himself, his faith and the history of his world - is tested to destruction. A Times Best Thriller Book of the Year A Guardian Fiction Book of the Year A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year A Telegraph Top 50 Book of 2019 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year An Express Best Book of 2019