In the battle of book vs film, there can only be one winner From dystopias to pulp thrillers, fairy tales to Shakespeare as musical, taking in Darcy in a wet shirt, Bridget Jones's calorie-counting and Kenneth Branagh's Belgian accent as Poirot, Louise Willder dives into the controversial world of book-to-screen adaptation. Whether it's Patricia Highsmith or Kazuo Ishiguro, Alice Walker or Henry James, booklovers find it hard to trade in what their imaginations first espoused. Through twenty books which have made their way onto our screens - some universally adored, others unmitigated disasters - Willder asks what makes a good adaptation, how can some be so bad, and why can't we resist telling the same stories again and again?.