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2021: ones to watch

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Read it before you see it.

Here are the hottest titles hitting small (or big) screens in 2021. It's going to be a jam-packed year of entertainment, with plenty to read and then watch. What do you think, is the book or TV/film adaptation better?

Now a major motion picture

The Drover's Wife

IN CINEMAS NOW, from Leah Purcell, named as one of the 100 figures shaping Australia’s creative future.
The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and inheritance.

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Now a major Netflix original drama

The One

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO FIND THE ONE? A unique and heart-stopping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of BEHIND HER EYES and BLACK MIRROR.

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Now a major motion picture from Apple TV+

Cherry

Jesus’ Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin

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Now a Sky Cinema original film

SAS: Red Notice

Now a Sky Cinema original film starring Outlander's Sam Heughan, and Andy Serkis

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Now a Netflix film

The Dig

A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.

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Now a major BBC TV drama

On the Trail of the Serpent

Now the subject of a major BBC TV drama, this is the only full-length study of Charles Sobrhaj - one of the world's greatest conmen, and notorious serial killers.

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Season 4 now on SBS

The Handmaid's Tale

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

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Now a HBO original documentary

Tina Turner: My Love Story (Official Autobiography)

Tina Turner: My Love Story will chart the full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina Turner’s 60th year in the industry.

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Now a Stan series

Made for Love

A gloriously absurd and hugely entertaining satire about intimacy and love from the provocative writer of the acclaimed novel Tampa. Soon to be a HBO series.

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Now a Netflix original series

Sweet Tooth Book One

Now in paperback, Jeff Lemire's SWEET TOOTH is collected in this new edition including sketches and behind-the-scenes scripts.

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