‘i forgot all the twists’

Book adaptations have never been more in demand, but can they ever really do justice to the original work? With a slew of bestsellers getting the big- or small-screen treatment, Christobel Hastings explores why the trend is good news for women

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Mark Gatiss’s star-filled new detective series Bookish is a case of mischievous fun

Clockwise from main: Sleuths Joyce (Celia Imrie), Ron ...

Crime fiction and screen adaptations have long gone hand in hand, from Slow Horses to Karen Pirie – now Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet are flipping the script and turning their new murder mystery, Bookish , into a novel

What makes a novel of ideas?