Promotional Information

/ Key title From the bestselling author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail comes an explosive historical detective story. Essential reading for all fans of Dan Brown's novels, Gardner presents secret archives on the true identity of Mary Magdalene, the hidden lineage of Jesus and Mary, and the 2,000-year-old conspiracy that forms the basis of Christianity itself. Sales and Marketing: / Dan Brown's smash hit The Da Vinci Code has sparked a huge interest in Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus, and renewed interested in the whole ancient wisdom genre. / The marketing and publicity campaign will exploit all the links to the Dan Brown novels and the other spin off books. / Bloodline of the Holy Grail has sold an estimated 250,000 copies across all formats since 1996, with over 100,000 of those sales in the UK. It was no. 8 on the Sunday Times bestseller and serialized in the Daily Mail. / Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark has sold over 35,000 copies since 2003 and has a strong month-on-month sell through. / Competition: Lynn Picknett - Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess; Margaret Starbird - The Woman With The Alabaster Jar; Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln - Holy Blood, Holy Grail; Simon Cox - Cracking the Da Vinci Code; Martin Lunn - Da Vinci Code Decoded; The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ - Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince; Michael Baigent - The Messianic Legacy

About the Author

/ Laurence Gardner, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, is a constitutional historian, lecturer and broadcaster. / A Knight Templar of St. Anthony and Prior of the Sacred Kindred of St. Columba, he is also the internationally best-selling author of a cycle of books exploring the messianic dynasty of Jesus, Bloodline of the Holy Grail and Realm of the Ring Lords.

Reviews

'In his brilliant new work, The Magdalene Legacy, Laurence Gardner expands on the Jesus and Mary Magdalene bloodline conspiracy that he covered in his first book, Bloodline of the Holy Grail. He pieces together the picture that Mary Magdalene was far from the so-called "whore" that Roman Church dogma declared her to be, but a priestess of high status and lineage and also the wife of Jesus.' - Nexus.