TV Adaptation Review – The Confessions Of Frannie Langton

Hello everyone, Back in the summer of 2020 I read The Confessions Of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. It was a remarkably powerful and moving character portrait written with immense depth, also containing a forbidden romance and an intriguing murder mystery. Frannie Langton herself has such a unique and sophisticated voice, and her strength as a character …

TV Adaptation Review – The Chestnut Man

Hello everyone, Back in November I read The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup, an absolutely gripping Nordic crime novel which was the very definition of a thriller. It was an easy five stars, and I was totally on the edge of my seat for most of the way. It had been on my TBR for …

TV Adaptation Review – Shadow and Bone (Series One)

Image credit: Netflix Hello everyone, There was excitement all round when in 2019 it was announced that Netflix would be adapting Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels, namely the Shadow And Bone trilogy and the Six Of Crows duology, and after a slight delay due to the coronavirus pandemic it finally hit our screens on April 23rd. …

TV Adaptation Review – Us

Hello everyone, At the beginning of 2017 I read Us by David Nicholls, a Booker Prize longlisted novel that told the story of a family as they travel throughout Europe. It begins one morning, when Douglas Peterson wakes up one morning and is told by his wife Connie that she is thinking of leaving him. In an …

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them – The Original Screenplay

Pages: 293 Published: 18th November 2016 Started reading: April 28 Finished reading: May 2 Synopsis When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone… Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find …

TV Review – The Miniaturist

Hello everyone, If you have read some of my previous blog posts, then you might know that The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton was one of my favourite books I read last year. I felt it was a modern classic, just beautifully written. It was adapted into a television drama in December 2017, so after reading the book, …

The Crimes of Grindelwald

The second instalment in the Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them series is finally arriving this week. I already have my cinema tickets for Friday, and as you may have gathered, I am extremely excited to see it! It is almost exactly two years since the first Fantastic Beasts movie was released, and I found that one truly …

Bowled over by The Blue Planet

It is extremely rare to come across something that absolutely everyone likes, but the spellbinding quality of Blue Planet II is such that it can't be met with anything other than universal acclaim. We all love it and admire it, and even feel a little overwhelmed by it. I have very vague memories of the original Blue Planet, …

Book to Film Review – The Girl on the Train

As someone who likes reading as much as I do, it took me a frighteningly long time to get round to starting on The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, the novel which - perhaps more than any other in the last decade - has become a total phenomenon. It's now the archetypal psychological thriller, …

My 2016 – Films

Never before have I watched so many movies in a year than in 2016. It came to be a personal resolution that I made up for lost time and took in many of the quality motion pictures that I had missed over the years, and on the whole it has been a fruitful journey. Visits …