The Outrun. Poster of the 2024 movie and cover of the 2015 book, The Outrun: A Memoir
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The Outrun: A Memoir
Amy Liptrot, 2015
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Nora Fingscheidt, 2024

Having lived on the edge in London, Rona endeavors to reconcile with her tumultuous past. Seeking solace, she returns to the untamed beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, her childhood home, in the hope of finding healing.


Wolf Hall. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2012 book, Bring Up the Bodies
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Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel, 2012
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Peter Kosminsky, 2015

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition.


Wolf Hall. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2009 book
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, 2009
TV series vs book
Peter Kosminsky, 2015

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition.


A Christmas Carol. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1843 book
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
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David Hugh Jones, 1999

On Christmas Eve in 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge, a surly money-lender at a counting house for seven years after his business partner Jacob Marley passed away, does not share the merriment of Christmas. In his house, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley, who warns him to repent his wicked ways or he will be condemned in the afterlife like he was, informing him that three spirits will visit him during the next three nights.


Us. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 2014 book
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Us
David Nicholls, 2014
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Geoffrey Sax, 2020

The Petersens are a married couple. Douglas, the father, tries to win back the love of Connie, his frustrated wife of twenty-five years, during their ‘holiday of a lifetime’ touring Europe, after she tells him that now their son Albie is about to leave home for university, she also wants to leave.


Dune. Poster of the 2000 TV series and cover of the 1965 book
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Dune
Frank Herbert, 1965
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John Harrison, 2000

Emperor Corrino has issued a challenge that the House which can produce the most spice will control its source, the desert planet Dune, with no rules as to how the Houses can achieve the goal. Meanwhile, Lady Elara of the Bene Gesserit and bound concubine to the Emperor, secretly takes the commander – the player – into one of the Heighliners, a person whose bloodline and future the Sisterhood had checked.


The Child in Time. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 1987 book
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The Child in Time
Ian McEwan, 1987
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Julian Farino, 2017

A successful writer of children’s books is confronted with the unthinkable —he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, he realises his daughter is gone. Kate’s absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.