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Seven Buzzy Book-To-Screen Opportunities To Look Out For At Next Week’s London Book Fair
London Book Fair's books-to-screen agents will be shopping new titles from Adam Kay, Matthew Quick and Jill Dawson next week.
Following the global breakout success of the semi-autobiographical This is Going to Hurt, which starred Ben Whishaw as the rather grumpy Doctor Kay and was lauded on both sides of the pond, we may be seeing A Particularly Nasty Case on the small screen in the not-too-distant future. The other one is about female cannibalism and comes from The AtlasSix writer Olivie Blake, but Janet Change’s debut novel is about a downtrodden personal assistant who assumes her dead heiress boss’s identity at culinary school in Paris. He pulls back the curtain on a sophisticated international operation that connects illegal logging in Papua New Guinea, real estate purchases in Vancouver, terrorism in the Middle East and capital flight from China.
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