Tense and point of view: part three

What makes a novel of ideas?

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…

The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey (Granta, £16.99) ...

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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