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You might be surprised how much UK writing has inspired film and TV versions. Test your knowledge of the novels, plays, and the non-fiction which made it from the page to the screen... All the titles are on the Reel Books booklist, should you need a bit of help. 

 

 Question 1.
Which Pat Barker novel tells the story of First World War soldiers - including the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen -  sent to an asylum to recover from emotional troubles?

Regeneration

Restoration

Resuscitation

Recuperation

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 Question 2.
The Hollywood movie The Madness of King George was based on a stage play of roughly the same title, but by which UK playwright?

Harold Pinter

Howard Brenton

Alan Bennett

Caryl Churchill

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 Question 3.
Who wrote the cult novel Layer Cake, a portrayal of a seedy London underworld of gangsters, drugs and crime, recently turned into a movie starring Daniel Craig?

Irvine Welsh

Jake Arnott

Toby Litt

J.J. Connolly

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 Question 4.
In Sebastian Faulks' novel, who is the eponymous heroine (played by Cate Blanchett in the film version) who sets off for war-torn France to look for a lost lover, only to end up engaged on a secret mission?

Bridget Jones

Charlotte Gray

Morvern Callar

Mrs Brown

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 Question 5.
Which book by Alex Garland, about a generation of 'drop-out tourists' in Thailand, was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio?

28 Days Later

The Tesseract

The Coma

The Beach

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 Question 6.
Closer, a recent film starring Jude Law and Julia Roberts, was based on a play by which British writer - who also wrote the screenplay?

Patrick Marber

David Hare

Tom Stoppard

Sharman MacDonald

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 Question 7.
Joe Simpson wrote a book about the terrifying ordeal he suffered while climbing in South America. In the film version he and his climbing partner recreated those events. What's the title of the book and film?

Touching the Stars

Touching the Void

Touching Oblivion

Touching Death

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 Question 8.

Several of Ian McEwan's novels have been dramatised. But which film, released in 2004, recreates the famous opening sequence in which a hot-air balloon causes a freak tragedy?

The Innocent

The Cement Garden

Enduring Love

Atonement

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 Question 9.
Which of the following is not a novel by Patrick McGrath which has been turned into a film?

Spider

The Asylum

The English Patient

The Grotesque

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 Question 10.
Who wrote the novel Last Orders, inspiration for a film starring Bob Hoskins, in which a group of men travel to Margate to scatter their friend's ashes?

Julian Barnes

Graham Swift

Kazuo Ishiguro

Nick Hornby

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