The Mating Game. Poster of the 1959 movie and cover of the 1958 book, The Darling Buds of May
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The Darling Buds of May
H.E. Bates, 1958
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George Marshall, 1959

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins’ farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn’t paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn’t easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.


Danny the Champion of the World. Poster of the 1989 movie and cover of the 1975 book
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Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl, 1975
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Gavin Millar, 1989

In 1955, William Smith, a widower, lives with his nine-year-old son, Danny, in a vardo behind the filling station and garage where he works in the English countryside. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy, and when he won’t take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father.


The Mean Season. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the 1982 book, In the Heat of the Summer
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In the Heat of the Summer
John Katzenbach, 1982
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Phillip Borsos, 1985

Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper, who is burned out from years of covering the worst crimes in the city. He promises his girlfriend Christine that they will move away from the city, but he ends up covering a series of grisly murders by a serial killer who calls him telling the reporter that he will kill again.