Literary News - Award winners and Adaptations

This year's Women's Prize for Fiction has been won by Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, a reimagining of Dicken's classic novel David Copperfield, set in the Appalachian Mountains.  You can find novels by Barbara Kingsolver and Charles Dickens in the EPHS Libraries.  Demon Copperhead is on order and will be available soon!  

You can listen to Barbara Kingsolver, author and poet Michael Rosen and Carnegie nominated Jessie Burton talk about Dickens and their books in a BBC Radio broadcast at the Hay Festival by clicking here. 

In other news, Netflix is filming a ten part series of the iconic and hilarious Geek Girl series by Holly Smale, about a neurodivergent teenager who becomes a model.  Look out also for season 2 of Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, Heartstopper by Alice Oseman and The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.  As well as film adaptations of Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, The Uglies by Scott Westerfield and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, the prequel to the Hunger Games series.  All these books are available to borrow from the EPHS Libraries - read the book before watching the adaptation!