ORIGIN
coming this
October ....
We were delighted to receive news
about Dan Brown’s hugely anticipated ORIGIN this October. An amusing aside is
that Penguin-Random-house’s Transworld Publishing imprint have been Dan Brown’s
British publishers introducing Robert Langdon to us well before Tom Hanks
immortalised him on the silver screen.
Last year I heard that
Penguin-Random-house’s Transworld Publishing Imprint have brought thriller
writer Harlan Coben to
their stable. I have been a follower of Harlan Coben
for many years, and I recall an interesting exchange back in 2004
we had that related to his own relationship with Dan Brown.
Ali Karim : Keeping on
this topic, you were one of the first to champion a little book called ‘The
Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown – which has been at the top of our book charts
for ages. Can you tell us a little about how you got involved with Dan Brown?
And what books should we be looking out for?
Harlan Coben : It’s a long
story and coincidentally I just a call from my French publishers as Just One
Look just came out there and is doing very well at No. 3 with ‘Da Vinci
Code’ at No 1 and ‘Angels and Demons’ at No. 2. So I sent Dan an email
saying….laughing…. ‘Alright enough now!’….laughing….I hear the same thing
happened here in the UK when Just One Look came out in paperback….The
hardcover hit No. 1 but the paperback didn’t because there were three Dan Brown
books at No. 1, 2 and 3…laughing….I think there was a three-for-two deal going
on in some bookshop…laughing….Dan and I actually went to college together…Amherst
College….and he actually read my stuff before I read his, this is going back
some time. So his editor sent me a copy of ‘Da Vinci Code’ in manuscript form,
well before anyone had heard about ‘Da Vinci Code’ – His previous books are now
doing really well, but when they were first published they didn’t do as well
because perhaps they didn’t get the publishing support or whatever, and so I
read the manuscript and thought it was a wonderful read, and I was happy to
pass a review and blurb it. I don’t think the success of ‘Da Vinci Code’ is a
negative thing, I think that it is a great thing in the publishing world when
anything surprising happens and any work that has people buying books is no bad
thing so I have no problem with the success of ‘Da Vinci Code’.
So with Origin due out on October 3rd
2017, what has Dan Brown got in store for readers?
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of
symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to
attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science
forever”. The evening’s host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a
forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions
have made him a controversial figure around the world. Tonight is to be no
exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to
challenge the fundamentals of human existence.
But Langdon and several hundred other
guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown
apart before Kirsch’s precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under
threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the
museum’s director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous
quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.
In their path lie dark forces which
will do anything to stop them. To evade a tormented enemy who is one step ahead
of them at every turn, Langdon and Vidal must navigate labyrinthine passageways
of hidden history and ancient religion. On a trail marked only by enigmatic
symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will
bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried –
until now.
As imagery and
symbolism is a key factor in Dan Brown’s adventures of Robert Langdon, we were
delighted to receive more information from Alison Barrow from Transworld
Publishing, so hot off the presses -
Following much online speculation
about the location, jacket and content of this eagerly awaited new thriller by
global publishing phenomenon Dan Brown, Transworld Publishers release the UK
jacket for ORIGIN this afternoon, 27th June 2017.
Since the September 2016 announcement
of the publication, excitement has been growing for the release of the new
novel featuring Brown’s unforgettable protagonist Harvard symbologist Robert
Langdon, and has had fans clamouring for more information. Now for the first
time, readers worldwide will discover the setting for the action as well as key
elements in the forthcoming thriller. Unfolding entirely in Spain — Madrid,
Barcelona, Seville, and Bilbao, the home of the Guggenheim Museum, ORIGIN thrusts
Langdon into the intersection of two of humankind’s most enduring questions:
Where do we come from? Where are we
going?
In keeping with his trademark style,
Brown interweaves codes, symbols, science, religion, history, art and
architecture with a decidedly fresh twist; the art is modern and the science
taps into the most advanced cutting edge technology available today. Transworld
will publish this stunningly inventive new novel from the world’s most popular
thriller writer as a Bantam Press hardback on October 3, 2017.
It will also be available as an ebook
and an audiobook from Penguin Random House Audio. ORIGIN will be published
simultaneously in the US and Canada by Doubleday with a U.S. Spanish language
published by Vintage Espanol.
There are more than 200 million
copies of Dan Brown’s books in print worldwide, and his novels have been
translated into 56 languages.
Shots are delighted to offer a 50%
discount on pre-orders of ORIGIN by Dan Brown which can be accessed from this link
and we have discounted paperback copies of Harlan Coben’s HOME in paperback from our
bookstore HERE
More information about the work of
Dan Brown available HERE and Harlan Coben available HERE
