Can Oprah and Dan Brown save the publishing industry?The recession-racked US publishing industry is hoping sales of Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol and the return of Oprah’s Book Club will be enough to carry them through the pre-Christmas period.
The Lost Symbol
Philip Pullman: Dan Brown’s new novel is “flat, stunted and ugly”
Author Philip Pullman has laid into fellow writer Dan Brown’s new novel, The Lost Symbol, labelling the characters “flat and two-dimensional” and the prose “stunted and ugly”. Ouch.
