Harlan Coben Wins ITV Bestseller Dagger Award 2009

American author Harlan Coben, took the award for favourite crime author on 21st October 2009, at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, beating popular authors Dick Francis, Alexander McCall Smith, Nicci French and, of course, Martina Cole. The Dagger Award winner was selected by the British public after an online poll which lasted six weeks.
Harlan Coben currently has 16 bestsellers under his belt and 47 millions books in print worldwide. His latest novels 'Long Lost' and 'Hold Tight' debuted at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and lists around the world. Harlan already has another book in the pipeline, 'Caught', which will be available in early spring 2010.

Harlan Coben Wins ITV Bestseller Dagger Award 2009

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown's much awaited new book 'The Lost Symbol' was released on September 15, 2009. It is a thriller set in Washington D.C. , after the events of his previous book 'Da Vinci Code'. The story's main focus is on Freemasonry.
This is Brown's third novel involving the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 'Angels and Demons' (2000) and 'Da Vinci Code'(2003).
It had a first priniting of 6.5 million and on the first day the book sold a million in hardcover and e-book versions in the U.K., the U.S. and Canada making it the fastest selling adult novel in history. Since its release it remains at the top of The New York Times best seller list for hardcover fiction.

The Lost Symbol