Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller The Lost Symbol has topped the book charts for Christmas. The “unstoppable juggernaut” of a book will be in the top slot on Christmas Day after clocking up the most sales last week, retailer Waterstone’s said. The Lost Symbol pulled clear of its rivals after facing stiff competition from Guinness World [...]

After Dan Brown’s mega-selling “The Da Vinci Code” appeared in 2003, tracking the further adventures of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon (who first came on the scene in 2000’s “Angels & Demons”), publishers were quick to unleash a landslide of titles to feed off the novel’s success. Some were well-written fiction adventures that stood on [...]