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Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Emma Stone is to star in a film adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel Poor Things, set in the 19th century and itself borrowing from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Titled Poor Things and scheduled to begin filming later this year, the film will see Stone reunite with Greek film-maker Yorgos Lanthimos, who directed Oscar-winning 2018 historical black comedy The Favourite. Searchlight Pictures, one of the companies producing the film, describes it as “a whirlwind adventure hopping from Alexandria to Odessa to a Parisian brothel” and “ostensibly the memoirs of late 19th century Glasgow physician Archibald McCandless” in which he tells “the bizarre life of over-sexed, volatile Bella Baxter, an emancipated woman and a female Frankenstein” whose brain is replaced with that of her unborn child after she drowns herself.
Costa Book of the Year: Utterly original Mermaid of Black Conch wins yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Trinidad authors Monique Roffey and Ingrid Persaud won Costa Book Awards for their novels
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story and
Love After Love, respectively. Adam Sherwin (
Trinidad celebrated a triumph at the Costa Book Awards with authors born on the Caribbean island winning in the Novel categories. Writer, artist and academic Ingrid Persaud won the Costa First Novel Award for
Love After Love.
‘Dark love story’
The judges said the story of Trinidadian Betty Ramdin, written in Trinidadian prose, was “teeming with life” and “full of unforgettable characters.”
Monique Roffey won the Novel Award for her seventh book,
Books to look out for in 2021
Irish fiction
New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation.
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Photograph: Alan Betson