Read it before you see it! Adaptions of books to the screen coming soon

For better or sometimes worse, we love it when books get adapted into films and TV shows as it gives us another way to enjoy these stories and experiences and often share them with a wider audience. It can sometimes bring us back to old classics we had forgotten in the mists of time, or alert us to a brand new world of pages we never knew exist. Some adaptions are faithfully done with a true love for the book and lead to a fantastic cinematic achievement, while other take the premise of your beloved book and swing wildly about a vague connection to the text, leaving us to ask whether the filmmaking had even read past the blurb! Half the fun of these adaptations is working out which of the two has become of a book.

Below is a run down of just some of the adaptations coming out this year, so for fans of these books it’s time to cross those fingers, hold your breath and hope for a good outcome (Sometimes not even asking for a great adaption…. just something that is not a disaster .. Looking at you Dark Tower ..)

Click on titles of the books for links to purchase and read them before you see them…

Heartstopper
By Alice Osman
TV Show Info - Creator - Alice Osman - Starring - Fisayo Akinade/ Kit Connor/ Sebastian Croft

An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.
Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised. By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness.

White Noise
By Don DeLillo
Film Info - Director - Noah Baumbach - Starring - Raffey Cassidy/ Adam Driver/ Don Cheadle

Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism.

Killers of the flower moon: Oil, Money, Murder & the birth of the FBI
By David Grann
Film Info - Director - Martin Scorsese - Starring - Leonardo DiCaprio/ Jesse Plemons / Brendan Fraser

A true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation.
In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Nightmare Alley
By William Lindsey Gresham
Film Info - Director - Guillermo Del Toro - Starring - Cradley Cooper/ Cate Blanchett/ Toni Collette

There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. Unlike the tragic figure he sees before him, Stan is young, clever and ambitious and quick to learn from the other carnival acts. Initially teaming up with a beautiful but vulnerable woman as part of a double act in which he mesmerises her, Stan soon leaves his circus days behind him, becoming a successful spiritualist who exploits the weak and the wealthy.
But even the very best con-men can meet their match.... With a new introduction from James Smythe, Nightmare Alley is a forgotten classic of Depression-era America: a brilliant, horrifying, compulsive journey into the true darkness of the human mind.

Death On the Nile
By Agatha Christie
Film Info - Director - Kenneth Branagh - Starring - Gal Gadot/ Kenneth Branagh/ Jennifer Saunders

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated film adaptation. The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems...

The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Film info - Director - Melanie Laurent - Starring - Elle Fanning/ Dakota Fanning

. . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.
Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. 'A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival'
'Movingly written and plotted with the heartless skill of a Greek tragedy, you'll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob'

Where the Crawdads Sing
By Delia Owens
Film Info - Director - Olivia Newman - Starring - Harris Dickinson/ David Strathairn/ Garret Dillahunt

For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say.
Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.

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