Best known for the 2003 best selling novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’, American author Dan Brown returns with ‘The Lost Symbol’ which, on the day it was released, sold one million in hardcover and e-book versions in the US, the UK and Canada, making it the fastest selling adult novel in history.

It follows the dark mysteries of the Masonic brotherhood which are about to surface and catapult Harvard symbology expert
Robert Langdon into a world of chaos.

After arriving in Washington to give a speech and finding an empty room, confusion turns to terror when the severed hand of prominent Mason and Langdon’s mentor, Peter Solomon, is found covered in Masonic symbols.

Robert realises he must help Peter’s kidnapper track down one of the oldest religious secrets on earth or watch his oldest friend die.

Langdon and Solomon’s sister, Katherine, must now combine their expertise in science and symbology and venture into the shadows of America’s history to save Peter and prevent an unimaginable darkness from spilling over into the capital’s streets.

Dan Brown’s latest cryptic offering creates a dangerous and intricate web of symbols and mysticism tangled around the central theme of the Masonic brotherhood. It has the pace of an Olym-pic sprinter and will leave your imagination racing when you put it down.

Generation A by Douglas Coupland  

Coupland’s latest novel ‘Generation A’ is gently apocalyptic.

Set in a dystopia where bees have finally become extinct, and global warming is taking its toll, society is gradually dissolving. It’s a really dismal vision.

As humans rely on bees for a third of their diet and to pollinate almost all wild plants, no one can escape the problem.

Apart from the super-rich that is.

Yet in this world of lingering decline there are five people who have miraculously been stung by bees.

These characters become vehicles for Coupland’s thoughts, as he fiddles with the tangled wires which power modern society.

The book is another fantastic example of Coupland’s satirical writing which takes consumerism, pop-culture and technology and whips it up into a literary frenzy.