Books into films... this month, we look at the source material for some classic movies
Our booklist on... great film adaptations
Books into films... this month, we look at the source material for some classic movies
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The Big Sleep
PenguinCalifornian private eye Philip Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream -
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
GollanczWorld War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. -
Submarine
PenguinMeet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. -
LA Confidential
Windmill BooksLA Confidential is set in 1950s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. -
The Virgin Suicides
BloomsburyThe shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. -
Casino Royale
PenguinJames Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. Spymaster M has sent Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply 'Le Chiffre'. -
Never Let Me Go
FaberIn one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Penguin ClassicsBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. -
The Constant Gardener
CoronetTessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. -
The Road
PicadorMcCarthy’s pared-down prose describes the wholesale annihilation of a society and all that it holds dear, but it also celebrates ingenuity and the will to survive in the face of utter hopelessness. -
Atonement
Vintage ClassicsOn the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. -
Scott Pilgrim series (vol. 1-6)
Fourth Estate LtdScott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's 'between jobs', and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong... -
Fight Club
VintageEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. -
Q and A
Black SwanBefore Slumdog Millionaire, there was Q&A, the book by Vikas Swarup. Ram Mohammed Thomas, a poor, 18-year old waiter from the wrong side of the tracks, becomes the biggest quiz-show winner in history, scooping a billion rupee prize -
Trainspotting
VintageThis novel looks at life in the dark underside of Edinburgh, the AIDS capital of Europe, through the jaded eyes and harsh vernacular of heroin addict Mark Renton, who is sick of his friends, sick with the city and its...
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