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The Serbian Dane by Barbara J. Haveland
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72'Davidsen writes like an assassin. Brilliant! More, more!' Fay Weldon'One of Denmark's top crime writer' Joan Smith, Sunday TimesLISE CARLSEN, a successful arts journalist trying to smooth over the... -
Dinosaur Pie by Jen Wallace
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.77It wasn't really Rory's mum's fault. She just bought Dinosaur Pie for a change and gave it to Rory for his dinner. The next morning he was a dinosaur. Not dressed up as a dinosaur - actually a... -
The Art of Discovery by Robin Bronk
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.62An exquisitely illustrated celebration of creativity, revealing key moments of artistic enlightenment. The Art of Discovery features one hundred intimate portraits of celebrities relating personal... -
Artists' Master Series: Composition & Narrative by 3DTotal Publishing
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.38The second title in a new series elevates your skills in composition and narrative with guidance from established world-class artists. As an established authority on art and design with a growing... -
Kapilavastu (Buddha, Book 1) Osamu Tezuka 9780007224517
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.37The first book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series from the godfather of the genre - an irreverent and humourous rendition of the life and times of Buddha. In book one,... -
The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey
OrbitRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97'ASTONISHING' Locus, 'ENTHRALLING' Guardian, 'CAPTIVATING' Kirkus***SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD***The Book of Koli begins a breathtakingly original new trilogy set in a strange and... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition Joi Carr 9781433189760
RRP: £42.00SciFier: £39.49In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in: the pleasure moon where everyone just wants to be lost in the party... -
Retro Gaming: A Byte-sized History of Video Games - From Atari to Zelda Mike Diver 9781912785865
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.55'Superb coffee table book' - Nintendo Life'A fun read' - Retro Gamer Take a trip down memory lane with Retro Gaming, and relive the glory days (and not so glory days) of your old retro tech... -
The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925-1991: An Uneasy Legacy Peter Rollberg 9781793641762
SciFier: £41.99This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an... -
Jerry Lewis Chris Fujiwara 9780252076794
SciFier: £21.94Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis... -
All the Best Lines: An Informal History of the Movies in Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes George Tiffin 9781781853061
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £6.19Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love and regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie quotes, embracing both one-liners ('My name is Pussy Galore') and slices of snappy... -
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices Catherine Russell 9780822370451
SciFier: £92.28In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by... -
Napoli/New York/Hollywood: Film between Italy and the United States Giuliana Muscio 9780823279371
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £107.31Napoli/New York/Hollywood is an absorbing investigation of the significant impact that Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors-and the southern Italian stage traditions they embodied-have... -
Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars by Douglas Brode
SciFier: £77.99In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time, spawning an unprecedented merchandising phenomenon. It was followed by two... -
Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany by Gail Finney
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age-the era in which visual activity achieved unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates,... -
The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
SciFier: £21.99In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist... -
Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games Samuel Sattin 9780358616375
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05For fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls-and anyone wanting to know more about them-Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games to those played... -
American Comics: A History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393635607
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £25.09Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes readers through comics' progress in the twentieth... -
All the Best Lines: An Informal History of the Movies in Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes George Tiffin 9781789542653
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £9.38Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love and regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie quotes, embracing both one-liners ('My name is Pussy Galore') and slices of snappy... -
The Wild Ass's Skin Honor^D'e de Balzac 9780199579501
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.49'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris,... -
Napoli/New York/Hollywood: Film between Italy and the United States Giuliana Muscio 9780823279388
RRP: £39.00SciFier: £35.56Napoli/New York/Hollywood is an absorbing investigation of the significant impact that Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors-and the southern Italian stage traditions they embodied-have... -
The Pride of the Yankees by Richard Sandomir
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.37On July 4, 1939, Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium. There is, for now, no known, intact film of Gehrig's speech, but instead, just a swatch of... -
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism Pierre Novellie 9781785121029
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97'Outstanding, I want to press it into the hands of every newly diagnosed person' Fern Brady'Like a Martian's guide to living on Earth. Funny, enlightening and gobsmacking' Frank Skinner'A hilarious,... -
Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives Gloria McMillan 9780786475766
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyze... -
We Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781838852368
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic... -
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe 9780140437591
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.74With its insightful portrayals of her protagonist's inner life, Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho was a hugely influential work of early Gothic horror. This Penguin Classics edition is edited... -
Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780230612327
SciFier: £46.99The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies,... -
A Cure for Chaos by Mencius
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.05From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightful graphic version of the stories and teachings of the important Chinese philosopher MenciusC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition Joi Carr 9781433196966
RRP: £94.00SciFier: £84.99In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
Hellboy's World by Scott Bukatman
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £18.02Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our... -
Star Trek: Signature Edition: Sand and Stars by Diane Duane
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £18.49The Star Trek: Signature Edition series continues with this thrilling adventure featuring Commander Spock, Captain Kirk, and the U.S.S. Enterprise. Vulcan: linchpin member of the United Federation of... -
George Gallup in Hollywood Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame) 9780231121330
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39George Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately... -
The Making of The Magnificent Seven by Brian Hannan
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. It had everything--actors' strike, writers' strike, Mexican government interference and a row between the screenwriters... -
The Definitive Yokai Field Guide Shigeru Mizuki 9781770468207
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Welcome to the wonderful and scary and silly world of Yokai! The Definitive Yokai Field Guide introduces young readers to the fantastically fascinating world of Japanese folklore. Universally... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253026101
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected... -
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths Pauline Greenhill 9780814342220
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £26.99Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and... -
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia Zur Muhlen
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.12A collection of radical political fairy tales-some in English for the first time-from one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur Muhlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's... -
Brave New World: Vintage Quarterbound Classics Aldous Huxley 9781784879686
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.43A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's deeply eerie and prescient dystopia, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari.Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and... -
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington George Stevens 9781985901179
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.49The son of a celebrated Hollywood director emerges from his father's shadow to claim his own place as a visionary force in American culture. George Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of...