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.

Jo Nesbo books or Harlan Coben

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind. I know they made a brief go at Sword of Truth many years ago but it was dire.

More Discworld would be amazing and for some gentle tv more chick lit type books like Jenny Colgan who does follow on stories

@MilkandWater

Yes, Shardik by Richard Adams, well spotted . It is a long time since I read it. I keep saying I'm going to read it again but the time never seems quite right. I first read it as a teenager and loved it and bought Maia when it came out but didn't enjoy it nearly as much. I was about 15 at the time and found it quite, er, raunchy but looking back it's pretty much pornographic (Maia that is, it's a very different book to Shardik).

I still think Shardik would make a brilliant film I was a bit in love with Kelderik (sp again) and can't think what current actor would play him.

@Dashel Amazon is making The Wheel of Time. The cast looks great so far: a bunch of little or unknowns for the Emond's Fielders, Rosamund Pike as Moiraine, the gorgeous Daniel Henney as Lan (this makes me happy), and some others. This link has all the known casting news.

The Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith would make a super TV series. It’s about the attempt to establish a Scottish colony at Darien (Panama).
It’s packed with wonderful characters, with a plot that’s full of political twists and turns and exciting adventures.

Having been thinking about this a bit more, I'd also like to see Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series, and the Willow/Cherry Tree Farm books adapted for screen.

The Painted Garden by Noel Stretfeild, and some of her (horribly renamed) 'Shoe' books.

And as a true story Do They Hear You When You Cry has the potential to be brilliant, although it wouldn't be an easy watch!

There are already at least 2 films of A little Princess, not sure we need any more.

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. Preferably made by the BBC for the Sunday 6pm slot

This.

Oh please. this. 100% true to the book though, in 6 parts, broadcast on the actual days it is set on.

Gwaan BBC. Dare you.

(I actually think Greenwich and Grey King would work too)

Also wierdstone of Brisingamen and another vote for Pratchetts witches novels, with that exact cast.

For kids, most things by Diana Wynne Jones. A Murder Most Unladylike

I'm also surprised they've never done Georgette Heyer, given how popular costume drama is.

I like Rith Galloway and also the Medicus series by Ruth Downie (detective stories set in Roman Britain)

The First Man in Rome series, from Colleen McCullough.

Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
A new version of ‘1984’
‘A Clergyman’s Daughter’ Orwell ( very underrated novel imo)

The Dark is Rising sequence - I came here to suggest that but see that others have beaten me to it!

The Phoenix Files (great series by Chris Morphew - teens save the world)
A Court of Thorns and Roses series. DD is desperate for this to happen. I think there were plans for a film but I don't think it actually got off the ground.
Also:
Songs of Earth and Power (Greg Bear)
Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)
Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)
The Edge books (Ilona Andrews)

I'd love decent Pratchett adaptations, but I'm not sure they can be done well. Similarly with the Earthsea books, which I also love.

Oh, and how could I forget The Weirdstone of Brisingamen!

Jean M Auel's 'Earth's Children' series.

They did a dire version of clan of the cave bear back in the 80's/90's but the characters develop so much more after the first book.

For Sunday teatime, The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

For grown ups, the Frieda Klein series by Nicci French

Yes to the Ruth Galloway series. Also, the DS Logan Macrae series by Stuart Macbride would be awesome if a bit gruesome. And the Maeve Kerrigan books by Jane Casey.

YY to Georgette Heyer Regency series.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy

@Lemonyfuckit

Oooh yes please to really good, long Harry Potter with all the lovely details included. Big budget HBO style like GoT. Also yes for Rivers of London and more Phillipa Gregory. Also Val McDermid - either the Carol Jordan and / or Karen Pirie series - love crime fiction / drama and great to have more with lead female detectives. It's maybe already been done but the Cazelet Chronicles - would make a lovely one for the Sunday teatime / evening drama slot.

The Karen Pirie series is being done by ITV.

www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-03-03/karen-pirie-itv-val-mcdermid/

The Warlord series by Bernard Cornwell, based on the Arthur legends. Three books all ready for a great tv series like the Last Kingdom!

YY to so many of these!!

Also the kate Ellis Wesley Peterson books - I always pictured Adrian lester as Wesley

The merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman. They did midwinter of the spirit a few years ago but it wasn’t grest

The silent companions by Laura Purcell would be a good Christmas Eve ghost story

Diary of a Nobody. Underrated book--so funny, in the same way as Jeeves and Wooster.

Someone mentioned A Little Princess above but I seem to remember a good film of it from when I was a kid. Does it not hold up?

If We Were Villains would make a good film.

Ooh yes, Adrian Lester as Wesley Peterson!!

Carol Birch's "Turn Again Home" would be a lovely Northern family saga.

Susan Calman isn't my idea of Ruth Galloway, but I do always picture her when I'm reading a Karen Pirie book.

As well as the Wesley Peterson series, Kate Ellis' Joe Plantagenet series would make a good 90 minute Sunday night drama in the Vera mould.

Ruth Galloway - yes! With Noel Fielding as Cathbad, Philip Glenister as Nelson (but maybe too old? I see him as Gene Hunt and he is hot!!) and maybe Jo Joyner or Rosie Cavaliero as Ruth.

I was going to say Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier but have just looked it up and it was released as a film in 1947. Time for a remake maybe?