All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Brian Percival, ranked

Margaret Hale and her parents Maria and Richard live in the idyllic town in Helstone in Hampshire. At the wedding of her cousin, Edith, Margaret is approached by Edith’s new brother-in-law, Henry Lennox. Lennox visits Helstone a while later and proposes marriage to Margaret; she refuses him. Later, the family is forced to move to the industrial town of Milton, in the north of England.

The show revolves around a trio of veterinary surgeons working in the Yorkshire Dales. Siegfried Farnon hires James Herriot into his veterinary practice at Skeldale House. Besides Siegfried and James, there is Siegfried’s younger brother, Tristan, and Mrs Hall, the housekeeper at Skeldale House.

In February 1938, Death himself tells about how a young girl called Liesel Meminger had piqued his interest. She is taunted by her schoolmates who chant ‘dummkopf’ at her. When Hans, her foster father, realizes that Liesel cannot read, he begins to teach her, using the book that she took from the graveside along with a giant chalkboard.

To escape her impoverished life as a miner’s daughter, a troubled young woman in Victorian England resorts to killing. Her lethal poisonings gain notoriety, and she soon becomes recognized as the first female serial killer in British history.

Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret, a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The villainous Quilp wants to get possession of the shop, and Nell. In league with his lawyer Samson Brass and Samson’s sister Sally, Quilp seizes Grandfather’s assets.