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I mean, this is harder, right? After posting about my ten favourite book-to-TV adaptations a couple of months ago, I got into a fair few... let's say, discussions... with friends and colleagues about my list. 'What about Normal People?' some asked? 'Bad Monkey on Apple TV was excellent!' others stated. 'I'd have added Morse,' James McShane rightly suggested to me on social media. 'I thought One Day on Netflix was amazing,' said a friend. 'The Witcher!' 'The Queen's Gambit!' '

Author BR Dexter has recently released his debut novel, Footsteps of Heroes, a story about friendship, division, tradition and honour, all bound up within an intriguing mystery and set in a fictional South African boarding school for boys. Taking place in the mid-1990s, just as Nelson Mandela is about to win the country's first democratic elections, Footsteps of Heroes is a beautifully written story about the fun, fear, adventure and drama that can be found when hundreds of b

In each of the Bookmarked interviews that I've undertaken, I've asked the various authors which movie or TV show - one adapted from a book - they've most enjoyed. There have been a host of great answers; Fiona Cummins mentioned Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs, Lesley McEvoy chose Wuthering Heights, while Mark Stay stated that Peter Benchley's Jaws was also "Spielberg’s masterpiece". All great picks, but of the twelve interviews I've done, only two people chose a TV show [

Danielle Fisher, who writes as DL Fisher , is an Amazon and Audible bestselling author of domestic thrillers. Danielle only published her debut novel, My Missing Boy , about a missing teenager and the suspicious nature of his disappearance, in 2023. Since then she has been hugely productive, having written four other novels. Based in North Carolina, before becoming an author, Danielle was a freelance writer and sports reporter. She is now published through Joffe Books and he

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning crime thriller author whose 2017 debut novel Rattle , about a serial killer who targets victims with rare medical conditions, was the subject of a huge international auction. A former journalist for titles including the The Mirror and a graduate of the Faber Academy, Fiona followed up Rattle 's success with a sequel, The Collector , in 2018, and has gone on to write a series of brilliant, dramatic, tense and emotional books including The Ne

Martin Edwards is a best-selling crime novelist and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger award for 'sustained excellence in crime fiction writing'. He was described by Richard Osman as "a true master of British crime writing", and is a member of The Detection Club, which was started in the 1930s by a group of leading detective novelists. Martin has written scores of books across both fiction and non-fiction, and his three ongoing fiction series are se

As this interview reveals, Andrew Bridgeman did a lot of things before becoming an author. But, luckily for his many readers, he eventually settled behind a keyboard and took the plunge as a writer. The result of that decision was the release, in 2024, of his debut novel Fortunate Son , a twisty, suspenseful and tightly plotted thriller which features rookie FBI agent Emma Noble who finds herself caught up in political machinations and double-crossing that have been years in

I've read a decent amount of books across this year - not as many as I'd like, and probably not as many as some of you - but enough to be able to pick 10 of my favourites. Now, the headline of this post might be somewhat misleading, because not all of these books are from 2025. Some are new, some are old, but all are books which I read at some point in the last 12 months and which - like the good old BBC - informed, educated or entertained in some way. Some even managed all t

Lesley McEvoy discusses bringing Jack the Ripper back, why being a psychopath isn't always a bad thing, and why Yorkshire's so important to her writing.