(Lionsgate, in cinemas from 23 January)

7 MARCH

THE MARK OF A GREAT, TOUGH BOOK MAY NOT be how many literature classes it’s taught in but how many film or TV adaptations you can drape on its branches without breaking them. Dramatizations are tricky

Playing murder detectives takes its toll, says Eve Myles , but luckily her husband is always on hand with a big glass of wine

It’s a brave playwright who would make the young George Eliot his main character; invidious comparisons are bound to lurk in the wings. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Bird Grove aims to dramatize Mary Ann Evan

Unstoppable force By Lucy Feldman TEYANA TAYLOR IS BALANCING A WORKLOAD that borders on ridiculous. On the day we speak, her to-do list includes participating in a Q&A about One Battle After Another,