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Tree Yard’s launch on our screens prompted us to look into other books, films and TV series with fruit in the title.

BOOKS

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, ( 1985) by Jeanette Winterson Also adapted into a BBC TV drama — a comingof- age story about a lesbian girl who grows up in a Pentecostal community in the UK. Winner of the Whitbread first novel award when Winterson was just 24. Sexing the Cherry ( 1989) by Jeanette Winterson Set in a magical otherworld, in the 17th century, and was compared favourably by critics at the time, with the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jonathan Swift. The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939) by John Steinbeck Won the Pulitzer and the National Book awards. This is about catastrophic weather, money grubbing financiers, migrants living in abject poverty and abandoned by the government. So . . . now? James and the Giant Peach, ( 1961) by Roald Dahl Yes, it’s been a film. But this was Dahl’s first novel for kids. Featuring a lonely boy, mean aunts, a grasshopper and magic.

MOVIES

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993) Turns out, pretty much everything. The book, by Peter Hedges, was adapted for the big screen and catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio to stardom. It would be his first Academy Award nomination. Also starred Johnny Depp and the brilliant and perpetually cool Juliette Lewis. The Cherry Orchard ( 1999) This a movie version of the Chekov classic, which is about an orchard but also, more broadly, how social change affects people. With a magnificent cast featuring Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, and our very own Melanie Lynskey. There is also a 1973 Australian TV adaptation of the play. A Clockwork Orange ( 1971) Stanley Kubrick’s film based on the 1962 novel, starred Malcolm McDowell as the violent delinquent and was banned in Britain — at the film- maker’s request — until his death in 1999. Features eye- clamping; not recommended for the squeamish. The Apple, ( 1980) Should have been called The Bad Apple, this film sounds bananas. Set in a post- apocalypic 1984 world in which everyone is rounded up and forced to watch America’s Go Talent. Not a- peeling. John Apple Jack, ( 2013) Described by Rotten Tomatoes as a “sumptuously heartwarming dish” this is a queer romantic comedy set in the hospo industry. “A playboy learns to love and a virgin learns to live”.

TELEVISION

Orange is the New Black ( 2013) An American comedy- drama about race, sexuality, mental illness, addiction. Much to discuss, and it was discussed.

Fruits Basket, ( 2001): A Japanese manga anime series about an orphan girl, the Chinese zodiac, hugging the wrong people, and a curse.