Here's an idea for a bestselling novel/film: The De Niro Code. A film student stumbles across a coded message in Taxi Driver, and uncovers a conspiracy that could shake the very foundations of cinema. He discovers Travis Bickle did not go on a bloody rampage at the end, but instead married Harvey Keitel's character (who is in fact a woman), and their descendants are alive today.

OK, that's silly. But its more probable than the nonsensical theory put forward by The Da Vinci Code (about to be well and truly spoilt here); namely, that the disciple that should be John in The Last Supper painting is in fact Mary Magdalene, and that Da Vinci was trying to tell the world through coded messages in his work that she had married Jesus, emigrated to France and that his descendants live today, protected by a secret society called the Priory of Sion.

When John Lennon proclaimed that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" during a 1966 interview with London journalist Maureen Cleave, it didn't cause much of a stir in England. But once word of the interview spread across the Atlantic and reached a radio station in the Bible Belt city of Birmingham, Alabama, the comment – and the media feeding frenzy that ensued – spurred millions, young and old, fans and non-fans, to start looking at the Fab Four in a new light. Soon, the lads from Liverpool were more than just fun-loving mop tops. They were spiritual guides for a generation of young people looking for answers from outside the mainstream world and its institutions.

Forty years later, the Beatles are again the subject of a spiritual examination. This one comes in the form of a new book, The Gospel According to the Beatles (Westminster John Knox Press, $19.95). Written by veteran British rock journalist Steve Turner (A Man Called Cash, A Hard Day’s Write), the book addresses the spiritual backgrounds of John, Paul, George and Ringo, and analyzes their music in a religious context. Drawing on a broad array of resources – various books, newspaper and magazine articles, unpublished notes and letters – as well as 80 interviews the author conducted himself, Turner’s book is a comprehensive look at the band that helped to shape the spiritual and cultural outlook of an entire generation.

I read The Da Vinci Code some time ago and have to say I agree with Griffith-Jones' assessment: Dan Brown deserves every ounce of his success with the book, it's a gripping yarn that raises lots of questions; and — despite the number of Christians that are up in arms about it — if Christianity is true we've got nothing to fear from those questions. What's needed is some way to separate the facts from the fiction, and that's precisely what Griffith-Jones gives us here.

Griffith-Jones has good reason to know his subject: he is "The Master of the Temple", the priest responsible for The Temple Church, London, right at the centre of some of the important action in The Da Vinci Code. His official title is "The Reverend and Valiant Master" and this book expands upon a talk he presents each week to "Da Vinci trail" tourists, answering questions about the Knights Templar, Opus Dei, the Priory of Sion — and, of course, about Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

Prepare to enter a bizarre world of cryptic clues, hidden histories, secret symbols and twisted theology: you're off on a Grail Quest. But you're not searching for the long-lost cup of Christ from the Last Supper — you didn't really think that's what the Grail is, did you?? No, you're about to discover the "sacred feminine", the "true" history of Christianity that's been suppressed by the church: the mysteries of Mary Magdelen, bride of Christ and mother of the Royal Line. It's time to give The Da Vinci Code a subtitle: Jesus was my grandfather ...well OK, let's make that great-great-great-(repeat a few more times)-grandfather.

It's a fantastic yarn, a fast-moving edge-of-the-seat thriller à la Dean Koontz and Michael Crichton. There's murder, mystery and mayhem enough to satisfy even the most die-hard addicts. Enter Robert Langdon, an American academic and world-renowned symbologist on lecture tour in Paris — he's just been called in by the DCPJ, Direction Central Police Judiciaire, the French Judicial Police, supposedly to help with a murder investigation at the Louvre. Big trouble: he's actually their chief suspect. Now enter Sophie Neveu, maverick DCPJ Cryptologist, come to the rescue. She knows Langdon's not guilty and helps him get away — I won't spoil the plot by telling you how, but there is a bar of soap involved.

Marlin Maddoux's book, PUBLIC EDUCATION AGAINST AMERICA, is must reading. The information he presents is absolutely accurate, but more than that, he connects the dots to help us see how the education system has been taken over by those opposed to everything Christian. The book shows how the radical academic left has outlawed student expressions of patriotism and Christian faith, attacked the freedom of speech in favor of a radical type of political correctness, uses psychological techniques to "reprogram" children as young as 5-years-old, and lied to children and parents about history, sex, politics, and economics.

Every chapter of this book presents, with great common sense and clarity, the assault on our children. It shows that the National Education Association wants to change the values of children. This is an extremely important book, the type of book you'd like to sit down and read to others. There have been other books on this topic, but this is the best so far. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, please buy several copies to give to your friends and relatives so that together we can stand against this attack on our children.

David Kupelian's new book THE MARKETING OF EVIL is brilliant! He combines superb common sense (that is so rare in our society) with the important biblical command to expose the fruitless deeds of darkness" (Ephesians 5:11). By doing so, he breaks the spell of the carefully marketed lies destroying our civilization, and sets the stage for revival and reformation.

David addresses all of the contemporary hot-button issues plaguing society and helps us to understand the fallacies and the need for common sense. In the process, he exposes the psychological tools of modern marketing, the manipulation of our children, the fraudulence of the sexual; revolution, the looniness of the ACLU, the emptiness of gay rights, and the other con jobs that have led us down the primrose path of self-destruction. David is to be commended for attacking these issues head on. THE MARKETING OF EVIL should be read by every concerned American.