Despite having over 40 million copies of her novels in print worldwide, until recently I had never read a single word of Jodi Picoult before. While I’d heard of her most renowned successes like “My Sister’s Keeper”, I never would have thought to pick one up until I stumbled across her latest release “By Any Other Name”. Centred around two women born centuries apart, united by blood, a talent for playwriting and the misfortune of being a girl in a world that doesn’t want to hear our stories told, I couldn’t resist.

While my personal distaste at the prospect of yet another dreaded “remake” in Hollywood would normally have me rolling my eyes, I could hardly disregard Robert Eggers’s latest venture into the gothic and ghoulish with “Nosferatu”. Having watched the original silent picture as a budding film student, I was eager to witness how Eggers planned to reimagine this narrative for a modern audience — especially one so historically entrenched in the archaic Christian values of 19th century Germany.