All three of these writers have been adapted for television surely Paul Auster’s shortlisted alternate histories of 4321 will also get their time. Hilary Mantel has won the Booker Prize twice for doorstop novels with a spread of decades Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries was intricately plotted and expansive from Could Atlas on, David Mitchell has cobbled all his novels into a megatext. In the literary world, too, the big book – if it ever went away – is now once more common, and among the most popular example of the form. This isn’t just a genre or cinematic phenomenon, however. The dominant narratives of our time are all megatexts, entire worlds whose stories are expanded outwards constantly: the Marvel Cinematic and Star Wars Universes are the obvious examples, but modern media’s taste for adapting and re-adapting makes this ever more the case: from Lord of the Rings to The Wheel of Time, big books are once more not just fashionable but the default.
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