To ask what book you'd like to see adapted for TV or film?

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They keep remaking Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Little Women.

What book would you like to see adapted?
I'd love to see The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (and I know, there is one TV series from ages ago), Evelina by Frances Burney, who was said to have inspired Jane Austen. Oh, and The Power by Naomi Alderman.

Thanks @MercurytoLibra and @EllieQ for the recommendations, I'm off to the Kindle store to order some of these.

I'd like to see more Tom Sharpe books made into films or TV series; he seems to have fallen out of favour with the Beeb.

I've just watched the new Rebecca - meh.
It was over very quickly and skimmed some important parts.

I vaguely remember the Charles Dance version from being a teenager, for which I think the casting was better.

I watched part of the new Rebecca. The writers seem to have misunderstood key things about the novel, like the crucial distinction between the genteelly-impoverished heroine who works as a companion, and ‘staff’ — and no way would Mrs Danvers be so openly and stupidly rude as to tell the newly arrived mistress of the house that she thought she’d been a lady’s maid! Or be wearing so much visible lipstick! And Mrs Van Hopper is brash new money and not on Max’s social level, and is highly unlikely to have been staying at Blenheim at the same time. And a staid traditionalist like Max would never pick up his new wife and carry her through the ranks of the servants over the threshold! So much wrongness!

I thought the relationship between Max and the second Mrs DeWinter was too straightforward and intimate

Affinity and the paying guests by Sarah Waters.

I could see The Paying Guests so clearly as I read it, could be a good film, not too many locations etc. Don't know who to cast though.

Scott Mariani Jack Noble books

@FadedRed

The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich The St Mary’s series by Jodi Taylor The Ruth Galloway series by Elli Griffiths.

Yes, I’d love to see any of these. They should definitely use Kobna Holdbrook-Smith in a tv version, I can’t imagine anyone else’s voice as Peter Grant. St Mary’s, if done with a decent budget and close to the books would be amazing.

I’d also love to see the Brenda & Effie series by Paul Magrs, this would make great telly if they get the main characters right.

@OwlinaTree

Affinity and the paying guests by Sarah Waters.

I could see The Paying Guests so clearly as I read it, could be a good film, not too many locations etc. Don't know who to cast though.

Affinity has been adapted, @OwlinaTree. Maybe ten or twelve years ago, Andrew Davies screenplay?

One I'd love to see but I don't know how it could be done as so much of the book is the nuances of language and word play - The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.

There are apparently plans for a “Narnia Universe” with Netflix......
If they do it properly and start with “The Magicians Nephew “ I’ll be amazed.

I'll have to look for that @Camogue, thank you.

@Doza The Magicians Nephew is fabulous. Why o why is it always overlooked?

Donna tartts The Secret History. I know The Goldfinch has been done

@paperclippink

I've just watched the new Rebecca - meh. It was over very quickly and skimmed some important parts.

I vaguely remember the Charles Dance version from being a teenager, for which I think the casting was better.

You can t beat Hitchcock

The Olga Da Polga books by Michael Bond. The two Paddington films and the 70s TV series were all brilliant. But where is Olga?? Guinea pigs are sadly underrated

There's a nice little video on the BBC News website about the latest adaptation of The Secret Garden, starring Colin Firth and Julie Walters. "Opening up a new Secret Garden" has a chat from Colin and clips from the film.

@Lemonpizza, my only issue with the Hitchcock version is that the Hays code meant he had to completely change how Rebecca died, and hence alter the entire plot of the last part of the film -- I think it removes much of the interesting ambiguity of the novel.

Am only partway through the new adaptation, but so far it's a bit of a dud. Armie Hammer's Max is simply too straightforwardly attracted to the nameless heroine -- Novel Max is terribly polite (at least compared to Mrs Van Hopper), but he's also a bit of a brute and treats the heroine like a child or a small dog rather than an adult woman he's attracted to, which is why she's totally taken aback by his abrupt proposal, which she genuinely thinks is him offering her a job.

This version's proposal isn't surprising, because they've already slept together after a much more obviously 'romantic' courtship -- whereas in the novel he's primarily attracted to the mousy heroine because she's so childlike, unsexual and un-Rebecca-like. We only actually get any indication that there's any sexual passion in the relationship after he makes the Major Plot Revelation when we're actually told they spend the night together.

Stormchild by Bernard Cornwell. Although it's been around a while now the eco- themes are fairly current, and I love a seafarers story, and the scenery would be quite spectacular, and I developed quite a crush on the rather rough-and-ready hero Tim when I read the book.

The Belgariad by David Eddings.
A full tv series of Potter would be incredible.
Looking forward to the Wheel of Time - didn't realise it was happening!

Have any of the Patricia Cornwall books been filmed or televised? Kay Scarpetta is quite the hero

Limpid spot on. The attraction between Maxim and Miss X is all perfectly reasonable in the new version but your analysis is much better. It's an important factor in the story