Great Adaptations

Award-winning stories across page, stage and screen

Screen adaptations breathe new life into books, expanding their audiences and reimagining their worlds. 

Crime writer Mick Herron’s Slough House thriller series was adapted into the award-winning Apple TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman, and playwright Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie received international acclaim, including a Laurence Olivier Award, before it was adapted into both a novel and a film.  

Get behind-the-scenes insight into the adaptation process and how reimagining their stories has influenced their careers, with Mick and Suzie in conversation with host Benjamin Law. 

Mick Herron 

Mick Herron is the author of the Slough House thrillers, the Zoë Boehm novels and several standalones. His awards include the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the Raymond Chandler Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in the UK and his latest novel is Clown Town. 

Suzie Miller 

Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her work has been produced around the world, winning multiple prestigious awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2023 for her smash hit one-woman play Prima Facie, which had a sold-out season on London’s West End and Broadway New York and was published as a novel in 2024. Suzie is currently developing major projects in theatre and screen and will publish a new novel later in the year. 

Benjamin Law 

Benjamin Law is a journalist, columnist, TV screenwriter and author of The Family Law, Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East and Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101. The Family Law is an award-winning TV series for SBS that Benjamin created and co-wrote over three seasons. He is a weekly columnist for Good Weekend magazine.