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The Great Beyond by Philip D. Beidler
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £33.75Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality-forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more... -
Close Up: Cinema And Modernism by James Donald
SciFier: £68.49Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. It was edited by the writer and film-maker, Kenneth MacPherson and among its regular contributors were... -
Lud-In-The-Mist Hope Mirrlees 9781473225565
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97A true classic - and the 'single most beautiful...and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century' Neil GaimanLud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet:... -
Designing Movies by Sylvia Townsend
SciFier: £51.99This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years. The... -
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.59An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy... -
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life Marjorie Garber 9780415926614
SciFier: £55.99"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."-Gore VidalAbout the... -
This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham 9781761151491
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present. Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she... -
Sandy Dennis by Peter Shelley
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This is the first book-length study of the American actress Sandy Dennis (1937-1992). Winner of two successive Tony Awards for her work in the theatre in 1963 and 1964, she moved into film in... -
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide Owen Holland 9781848319042
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.Tackling... -
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The Earth is Singing Vanessa Curtis 9781474958660 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £4.77Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is... -
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Charlotte Bronte 9780143106159
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.31One of the best novels ever written, in a chic new deluxe editionOrphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life... -
Into the London Fog by Elizabeth Dearnley
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.55As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9781349423651
SciFier: £46.99This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
The Hours by David Hare
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.40The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book... -
Gothic Tales Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140437416
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact;... -
Cocktails with George and Martha by Philip Gefter
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96'Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Philip Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation... -
The Question Mark Muriel Jaeger 9780712352987
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.38In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Edward Bellamy, set out to explore `The Question Mark' of what a future society might look like if human nature were... -
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 9780141441146
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.74'The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace ThackerayA novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its... -
Fictitious Dishes by Dinah Fried
SciFier: £13.65Fifty Iconic Culinary Scenes from Literary Classics Sure to Delight Readers, Foodies, and Photo-Junkies Alike Fictitious Dishes serves up a delectable assortment of photographic interpretations of... -
The Man with Six Senses by Muriel Jaeger
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Hilda is besotted with Michael, because Michael has a gift. Through some mutation, his mind is able to perceive 'lines of energy' and 'the vast ocean of movement' - things beyond the limits of the... -
The Cross and the Cinema by James M. Skinner
SciFier: £78.49Skinner reveals how the Roman Catholic Church, through its agency, the National Legion of Decency, dominated the American film censorship scene in tandem with the Production Code Administration. In... -
Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.99Fifteen-year-old Mia is not exactly thrilled when she gets the news that her parents are shipping her off to boarding school. It's not like she did anything that bad - all she did was wreck her dad's... -
The Fendi Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese Nikolai Von Bismark 9780847871865
RRP: £97.50SciFier: £77.50In September 2020, Kim Jones was named head of Fendi s couture and womenswear, marking a new era for the Italian brand. This publication examines Jones s relationship to the legendary Bloomsbury Set:... -
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 9780099511878
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.44'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling ... -
Home by Salman Rushdie
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.12Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong,... -
Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation by J. W. Whitehead
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £32.84Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May. He became a Broadway directing sensation, then moved on to Hollywood,... -
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 9781847493217
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £5.95The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with... -
Classics in Film and Fiction Deborah Cartmell 9780745315881
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £23.39This book negotiates the notion of a 'classic' in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term 'classic'... -
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 9780141040387
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.99Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
Call Me Stan by K.R. Wilson
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £18.12Long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for HumourWhen King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there -... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9780333918739
SciFier: £46.99This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
Glyph Ali Smith 9780241665619
SciFier: £13.21Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find... -
The Magic of Magnolia Moon Edwina Wyatt 9781529502947
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95For Magnolia Moon, magic is a way to solve problems. And when you're starting a new class at school and your best friend doesn't live across the road any more, problems seem to come easily.In her... -
Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.10Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. 'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis... -
The Novel after Film by Jonathan Foltz (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Boston University)
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £68.49According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete. The irony of this story is that the "death of the novel" at the hands of film has for a long time now... -
The Mysteries of Cinema by Peter Conrad
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.55People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a... -
The Fat Woman's Joke Fay Weldon 9780007291755
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.24Fay Weldon's first novel, a sharp and witty parable of the way people see themselves. For several weeks, Esther Sussman had lived in a sordid flat in Earls Court. During the day she read... -
The Crock of Gold James Stephens 9781513220062
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.99The Crock of Gold (1912), one of three original novels by James Stephens, is a work only a master of fiction and folklore could imagine. Taking up the major philosophical and psychological concerns... -
Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, New York) 9781107001947
SciFier: £77.28Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be... -
Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, New York) 9780521173544
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.22Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be...