In perhaps the most anticipated adaptation of 2024, David Nicholl’s best-selling novel One Day, which follows the lives of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew after they meet for the very first time on 15 July 1988, the night of their graduation, arrived on Netflix last month.

While the book was previously adapted into a film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess back in 2011, this is the first time the book will be making its way to the small screen, starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall.

Having premiered last year, the Netflix adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See follows a blind teenager in occupied France during World War II who meets up with a German soldier, Werner. 

The novel traces Marie-Laure and Werner as they cross paths and both try to survive the devastation of World War II, and the series is being helmed by Peaky Blinders adapter Steven Knight and Stranger Things director Shawn Levy.

Who doesn’t love a Jojo Moyes love story? And when Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Joe Alwyn lead the cast, you know it’s going to be a must-see.

The Last Letter From Your Lover follows Ellie Haworth, an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their centre. 

Directed by Ridley Scott,  House Of Gucci is based on a book by Sara G Forden about the shocking real life murder of Gucci heir, Maurizio Gucci. Starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in the lead roles, it’s set to be one of the biggest films of the year.

The story starts with his marriage to Patrizia Reggiani. They spent over a decade as frequent fixtures on the Italian social scene and enjoying the finer things in life together. The power couple also had two children.

But in 1985, they dramatically split. 10 years later, Maurizio was shot dead by a professional hitman. Reggiani was convicted of ordering his murder and was sentenced to 29 years imprisonment. She was released in 2014 and still maintains her innocence. Talk about high drama.

Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan star in a film adaptation of Iain Reid’s bestselling novel, Foe. The psychological thriller is set in a future where corporate power and environmental decay are ravaging the planet.

They play Junior and Hen, a young married couple living a solitary life on their isolated farm until a mysterious stranger finds his way to their home and knocks on their door, bringing news that throws their lives into turmoil: Junior has been randomly selected to travel to a large, experimental space station orbiting Earth.

Emma Donoghue is the author of Room, a best-selling 2010 book that became an Oscar-winning film starring Brie Larson. in 2022, she brought her 2016 novel, The Wonder, to the big screen too, with Hollywood favourite Florence Pugh playing the lead role. 

Inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ‘fasting girls’ between the 16-20th centuries, The Wonder follows the story of a girl who has survived without food for months.

Prepare to hear Thuso Mbedu’s name everywhere from this point forwards, because we predict that after the release of Amazon Prime’s highly anticipated series, The Underground Railroad, the breakout actor will be in big demand. 

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and directed by Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins, The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom from a cotton plantation in the antebellum South. She escapes in pursuit of the fabled Underground Railroad, only to discover a secret, subterranean network which picks up fugitives wherever it can.

Throughout her journey, she must navigate the unique terrors for Black people in the pre-Civil War era, and evade capture at the hands of her bounty hunter Ridgeway (played by Joel Edgerton), who will stop at nothing to bring her back to the plantation she escaped.

All 10 episodes of the original series landed on Amazon Prime  and are still available to watch.

Claire Foy might be best known for leading roles in excellent period dramas (Wolf Hall, The Crown) but this project is something truly different.

Foy will take the lead role in the movie adaptation of Melissa Broder’s The Pisces. The 2018 novel tells the story of Lucy, a PhD student in her 30s who has just broken up with her boyfriend. After trying to write her thesis on Sappho for nearly a decade, Lucy feels lost and disconnected. She agrees to dog-sit for her sister in Los Angeles for a summer, where she joins a love addiction group and goes on a string of Tinder excursions. But Lucy’s outlook starts to change when she meets and falls for a merman called Theo…

It’s a darkly funny, erotic and, at times, uncomfortable story, which takes a refreshing and sharp take on what romance, fertility, ambition, identity, pleasure, boundaries and love all mean for women today.

Back in 2019, Reese Witherspoon announced she is adapting the best-selling book, Daisy Jones & The Six. 

The book follows the story of lead singer Daisy Jones, who is born into privilege but ignored by her selfish parents. She is a spirited and enigmatic singer/songwriter who comes of age and rises to rock superstardom against the backdrop of the LA music scene in the 1970s.

Riley Keough plays Jones in the Amazon Prime Video limited musical series, available to stream now. 

Americanah, the award-winning book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is being turned into a mini-series by Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira. 

It of course follows the love story between Ifemelu, a bright, young Nigerian woman who shows great academic promise, and an ambitious boy in her class called Obinze. The pair discuss their dreams for the future, and with Nigeria being under military rule, find themselves believing that western cultures may have more to offer.

For those who fell in love with Normal People, BBC Three also produced Sally Rooney’s first novel, Conversations With Friends. It tells the story of two college students – Frances and Bobbi – living in Dublin, who form a complicated connection with an older married couple called Nick and Melissa. 

You can expect the same dramatic, intimate and beautiful production that we were treated to with Normal People.

Lily James, Dominic West and Andrew Scott lead an all-star cast in a BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s classic novel The Pursuit Of Love.     

Set in Europe between the two world wars, the story follows the adventures and misadventures of the charismatic and fearless Linda Radlett, played by James, and her best friend and cousin, Fanny Logan, played by Emily Beecham.

The series premiered on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with all three episodes are still available to stream now.

Another best-seller being produced by Witherspoon, the film adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens stars Daisy Edgar-Jones.

Owens’ novel follows the story of Kya Clark from a young age, when her mother walks out on her family in search of a different life. One by one, Kya’s siblings leave home to escape their abusive father, until he himself disappears one day, leaving Kya to fend for herself in the middle of the marsh. She is forced to adapt and learn to live with her surroundings as she grows up.  

Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are joining forces to produce best-selling novel The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 

The book follows young Hiram Walker who was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.

Sienna Miller leads the cast in Netflix’s adaptation of Anatomy Of A Scandal by Sarah Vaughan. The plot revolves around James, a high-flying Home Office minister whose marriage to Sophie is plunged into crisis after the aide that he has an affair with, Olivia, accuses him of rape.

In 2019, Candice Carty-Williams let slip to Stylist that her best-selling modern coming-of-age novel, Queenie, was being adapted for the small screen.

Queenie is a 25-year-old Black woman working on a newspaper in London, whose life starts to unravel when she takes a break from her long-term boyfriend. She sleeps around, isolates herself and makes career-jeopardising decisions. It’s a darkly funny take on millennial life from an underrepresented perspective, and is often very, very close to the bone for its readers.

The series is being produced by Channel 4 and is expected to come out later this year.

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Cush Jumbo and Sarah Parish star in a the Netflix eight-part adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller Stay Close,  produced by Nicola Shindler and Richard Fee, the same team behind hit Netflix thriller The Stranger.

Jumbo takes on the role of Megan, a busy suburban mum whose life is torn apart after Lorraine (Parish), a friend from her past, delivers some shocking news.

In 2021, the rights to Naoise Dolan’s 2020 debut, Exciting Times, were snapped up by production company Black Bear Pictures, with Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor set to take the lead role.

Based in Hong Kong, this sharp, witty debut explores a love triangle as newly arrived English teacher Ava finds herself torn between the different worlds offered by non-committal banker Julian and alluring lawyer Edith. 

Big Little Lies fans will love this adaptation of another Liane Moriarty book: Nine Perfect Strangers, available on Amazon Prime Video.

Set at a remote wellness resort where nine stressed-out strangers go to get on a path to a better way of living, each has their own reasons for visiting from losing weight to getting over heartbreak. Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy are just two of the series’ stars.

Carey Mulligan stars alongside Zoe Kazan in the film based on She Said by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor (the two New York Times journalists who broke the Harvey Weinsten scandal). 

We were gripped and slightly creeped out after watching the tense trailer for Amy Adams’ adaptation of psychological thriller The Woman In The Window. 

Adams plays Anna, an agoraphobic psychologist who only sees the world from her window and sends people away if they arrive on her doorstep. She unexpectedly befriends her neighbour from across the road, Jane, who confides in her about her “complicated” family. But then, while looking out of her window one evening, Anna appears to see Jane being brutally attacked in her home. Did Jane just imagine things? Or did she really witness a murder?

Woman In The Window landed on Netflix on 14 May 2021 and it is still available to stream.

Freida Pinto plays war hero Noor Inayat Khan in this adaptation of the war hero’s biography. 

Noor was the first female wireless operator sent to occupied France in 1943, where she was captured by the Germans and tortured. She was kept imprisoned for 10 months, never once betraying the British, before she was taken to Dachau concentration camp, where she was shot on 13 September 1944.

Pinto has described her as “a fierce and amazing woman, the most unlikely heroine of World War Two”.

Judy Blume’s coming-of-age tale Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret was first published in 1970 and it has been both challenged and celebrated for its frankness over the years. The young-adult novel tells the story of a sixth-grader who has grown up without a religious affiliation due to her parents’ interfaith marriage. Margaret is trying to balance navigating life as a teenage girl and finding her identity. 

Starring Rachel McAdams, the adaptation is currently available to watch on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.

Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o are both set to star in a limited series adaptation of Laura Lippman’s murder-mystery novel, Lady in the Lake. 

Apple TV+ are setting up the show that will see Portman play a 1960s Baltimore housewife and mother who becomes an investigative journalist in light of an unsolved murder. Nyong’o will play Cleo Sherwood, a woman balancing multiple jobs and a family, who is committed to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.

Lily King’s Writers and Lovers became an instant New York Times bestseller when it was released last year and it’s now being adapted for TV by Topic Studios. The novel tells the story of Casey Peabody, an aspiring writer in 1990s Boston whose world is transformed by a love affair and her mother’s sudden death.

Toni Collette will direct the series in her directorial debut and she describes the novel as “an empowering story that speaks to me as a woman and an artist”. The cast and release date are yet to be announced but that leaves you with plenty of time to read the acclaimed novel.

Priyanka Chopra stars in the film adaptation of New York Times bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

It tells the epic and darkly humorous tale of Balram Halwai, a rickshaw driver’s son who ascends from servant to self-made entrepreneur in modern India.

The movie arrived on Netflix on 22 January 2021 and it still available to stream.

Gemma Arterton returned to the small screen with an intriguing three-part drama adaptation of the classic 1939 Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden.

The story of sexual repression and forbidden love takes place in 1934 on a remote clifftop palace in the Himalayas, once known as the ‘House of Women’. 

Black Narcissus aired on BBC One in December 2022, but you can still catch up with all three episodes on BBC iPlayer.

John Preston’s The Dig, which was published in 2008, is an account of the most famous archaeological dig in Britain in modern times – the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, known as “Britain’s Tutankhamun”.

Set against the intense backdrop of a nation on the eve of war in 1939, the story channels class tensions, love and loss through the eyes of those affected by the dig and its treasures.

Lily James and Carey Mulligan starred in Netflix’s movie adaptation, which landed on the streaming platform on in 2022.