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The Gormenghast Trilogy Mervyn Peake 9780099288893
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.94A beautiful fairytale filled with unexpected plot twists. ... -
The Chrysalids John Wyndham 9780241983928
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.58'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT!' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all... -
The Dance of Death by Martin Rowson
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Hans Holbein's 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller, Death. In a foreboding series of... -
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily... -
The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea by Andrew Jackson
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99Examines the 1990s growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia within South Korean cinema This book is a narrative history of art film exhibition and cinephilia in post-dictatorship... -
Epileptic by David B
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.94The most acclaimed European graphic novel of the last ten years, Epileptic is David B.'s story of his brother's battle with epilepsy - but it turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating... -
The Magistrate Arthur Wing Pinero 9781849434577
SciFier: £12.49With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it's hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years... -
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets Nicholas Boys Smith 9781789465419
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97'Highly entertaining' - The Times'A hymn book to the London street' - TLSFrom the Roman marching along the ancient Old Kent Road to the rattling newspaper presses of Fleet Street, from Dickensian... -
Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment Casey Ryan Kelly (Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, University of Nebraska - Lincoln) 9780197677865
SciFier: £84.40In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors... -
Adaptation and the Avant-Garde: Alternative Perspectives on Adaptation Theory and Practice William Verrone 9781623562885
SciFier: £40.99Adaptations have occurred regularly since the beginning of cinema, but little recognition has been given to avant-garde adaptations of literary or other texts. This compelling study corrects such... -
The School for Good Mothers: 'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE Jessamine Chan 9781529158526
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICKA BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE'Destined to be a feminist... -
Gaspar Noe: Interviews Geoffrey Lokke 9781496854247
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25Since the release of his breakout film Irreversible in 2002, Gaspar Noe (b. 1963) has been labeled the principal provocateur of twenty-first-century French cinema. While many of the filmmaker's... -
Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques Andy Merriman 9781845133627
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21The hardback of this first and authorised biography received very good reviews and immediately reprinted. It tells the story of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy, on radio, film and TV... -
The Children of Jocasta Natalie Haynes 9781529057133
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships and the Sunday... -
The Complete Peanuts 1985-1986: Volume 18 Charles M. Schulz 9781782115151
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.10The Complete Peanuts reaches the go-go mid-1980s with this volume: 'mallies', 'punkers' (Snoopy with a mohawk!), killer bees, and Halley's Comet. The gang go to 'rain camp' and 'survival camp', the... -
The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne by John Hanhardt
RRP: £75.00SciFier: £64.29The provocative pop artist's on-screen experiments, newly brought to light in this essential reference work In the 1960s, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) produced hundreds of film and video works-short and... -
Tony Miles - England's Chess Gladiator by Raymond, D Keene
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99Tony Miles was a phenomenon in English chess. From an early age it was apparent that he had no respect whatsoever for the vaunted Soviet School of chess and held their grandmasters in scant esteem... -
Northern Getaway: Film, Tourism, and the Canadian Vacation Dominique Bregent-Heald 9780228013938
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.88For more than a century, posters, advertisements, and brochures have characterized Canada as a desirable tourist destination offering spectacular scenery, wild animals, outdoor recreation, and... -
The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood 9781786892485
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the... -
Mediatic Handology. Shaping Images, Interacting, Magicking by Ada Ackerman
SciFier: £12.41Digital culture, taken etymologically, means a culture of the fingers (from the Latin digitus). Although our contemporary times are still envisioned through the lens of an over-reigning visual... -
The Good German Joseph Kanon 9780751534849
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable - streets have vanished beneath the... -
The Embedding by Ian Watson
GatewayRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Ian Watson?s brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British sf in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in... -
Attack of the Leading Ladies by Rhona Berenstein
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry's first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes... -
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carre 9780241323410
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.79'A stunning story' Wall Street JournalA mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former... -
From the Margins to the Mainstream by Marianne Kac-Vergne (Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France)
SciFier: £31.99This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film... -
The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories A S Byatt 9780099521310
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for... -
Stories I Only Tell My Friends Rob Lowe 9780552164375
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of... -
The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen 9781782691037 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £2.10When Kai is cursed by a magic mirror, he can no longer perceive goodness in anything - not his best friend Gerda, nor the roses in the garden. One wintry evening, he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow... -
ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat Maryam Ghorbankarimi (Lecturer, University of Lancaster) 9781399562287
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £87.78Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this volume traces Neshat's evolution from Women of Allah to her feature films Women Without Men, Looking for Oum Kulthum and Land of Dreams,... -
The Chrysalids John Wyndham 9780141181479
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22A powerful post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's science fiction masterpiece The Day of the Triffids contains an introduction... -
I am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher
RebellionRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46He is the law - and you better believe it!Judge, jury and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and... -
Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century Youssef Daoudi 9781631495588
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.98On the morning of 4 July 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world's first Black heavyweight champion-and most... -
Voicing the Cinema: Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack James Buhler 9780252084867
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.64Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hannah Lewis edit in-depth essays from many of film... -
Voicing the Cinema: Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack James Buhler 9780252043000
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £82.51Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hannah Lewis edit in-depth essays from many of film... -
Anglo-Saxon Myths by Brice Stratford Stratford
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.38Enchanting tales of the gods, kings, and monsters that populated the Anglo-Saxon world. An atmospheric collection of 30 folk tales exploring stories of cosmology, monsters, conflicts and courtship... -
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain,... -
Only You Can Save Mankind Terry Pratchett 9780552576796
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.10This is the first book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy - not smart, popular or rich.But he does love video games.And as his parents argue themselves out of a... -
Floating Dragon by Peter Straub
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.24A classic tale of supernatural horror from the acclaimed author of Koko, The Talisman and Mr X. Now reissued in a new cover style. 'Floating Dragon racks you with suspense! Straub is a master at... -
A Philosophy of Computer Art Dominic Lopes 9780415547628
RRP: £51.99SciFier: £47.20What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as 'meaning', 'form' or 'expression' apply to computer art? A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore... -
Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space Brian R. Jacobson 9780231172806
SciFier: £88.18By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and...