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The Bird Coat by Inger Marie Kjolstadmyr
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21This tale of passion, persistence, and hubris reminds us that what seems foolish in hindsight may have been born of boldness and bravery.A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of... -
Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA) 9781441197979
SciFier: £31.99The horror film is meant to end in hope: Regan McNeil can be exorcized. A hydrophobic Roy Scheider can blow up a shark. Buffy can and will slay vampires. Heroic human qualities like love, bravery,... -
The Collectors: A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust Philip Pullman 9780241475256
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.29'D'you - er - have you seen her before?''Yes. I know who she is.''But, Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probably nearer eighty! You're not being serious - I mean . . . What do you... -
Or What You Will by Jo Walton
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But... -
Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Express Train to Nowhere Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills 9781637581841
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46The long-awaited follow-up to Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills's smash hit Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Secret of the Grande Chateau.Hey kid, do you wanna get rich? I'm talking real rich, real quick... -
Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero Aldo J. Regalado 9781628462210
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £90.99Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's Superman!"" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural... -
Meriem Bennani - Life on the CAPS Meriem Bennani 9780941548878
RRP: £36.00SciFier: £30.99A catalog for an exhibition of the latest chapter in Miriem Bennani's CAPS film project. Meriem Bennani is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in New York. Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in... -
American Classic Screen Interviews by John C. Tibbetts
SciFier: £67.49First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and... -
Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound Vincent LoBrutto 9780275944421
SciFier: £78.49Sound-On-Film contains interviews with 27 prominent men and women who discuss their careers and the art and craft of film sound. These sound creators represent many of the crafts working in film... -
Graphic Novels as Philosophy Jeff McLaughlin 9781496813275
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel "Mandel" Cabrera Jr., David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Alfonso Munoz-Corcuera, Corry Shores, and Jarkko S. TuusvuoriIn a follow-up... -
Dear Orson Wells and Other Essays by Mark Cousins
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.53In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, the acclaimed Belfast filmmaker and BBC author Mark Cousins reflects on his prolific career in documentary-making, meditating on the philosophers,... -
The Ink Witch Steph Cherrywell 9780316585941
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.96For fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The Okay Witch comes a hilarious and affirming cozy fantasy about the adventures of a girl who discovers she is the descendant of a powerful witch coven... -
Star Wars Dad Jokes Strike Back: The Best Worst Jokes and Puns from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. . . . Kelly Knox 9781797244037
RRP: £10.95SciFier: £7.94The cringe is strong with this one. An all-new collection of Star Wars-inspired dad jokes, perfect for geeky fathers, pun lovers, and sci-fi fans of any age.What is Lando Calrissian's fashion... -
Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots by Michael Rex
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.49Do you know the difference between a fact and an opinion? It can be a hard thing to understand. Some things are facts - like the number of robots in this book. Other things are opinions - like which... -
Those Who Made It: Speaking with the Legends of Hollywood John C. Tibbetts 9781137541895
SciFier: £92.99What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The interviews in this book provide eye-witness accounts from the likes of Steven... -
This Woman's Work by Julie Delporte
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £16.00This Woman s Work is a powerfully raw autobiographical work that asks vital questions about femininity and the assumptions we make about gender. Julie Delporte examines cultural artefacts and... -
Look Again: Fashion by Shahidha Bari
RRP: £10.00SciFier: £7.34Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today... -
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run Rob Stone 9780231165525
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £57.08From Slacker (1991) to The School of Rock (2003), from Before Sunrise (1995) to Before Sunset (2004), from the walking and talking of his no/low-budget American independent films to conversing with... -
Barbara Kopple: Interviews Gregory Brown 9781496823298
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects... -
Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era Russ Castronovo 9780226096285
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.94The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, "I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club." Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty... -
Today You Can't Play Pilar Serrano 9788417123468
SciFier: £15.96Ana and her classmates are being bullied. Going to school used to be fun, but it's turned into a nightmare ever since Emma arrived. She's mean and bossy, and Ana is now the target of her bullying... -
Material Media-Making in the Digital Age Daniel Binns (RMIT University, Australia) 9781835950098
SciFier: £30.26There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides. This has changed the way media scholars think about the... -
Martin Scorsese: Interviews Robert Ribera 9781496809476
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of America's greatest cinematic storytellers. Over the last fifty years he has created some of the most iconic moments in American film, never... -
Currents: The Ables Book 3 Jeremy Scott 9781684423439
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £14.37Set four years after the events of Strings, Currents finds the Ables gang about to start their second year at Goodspeed University. Phillip is struggling more than ever with anxiety and PTSD, and he... -
The Rescue Princesses: The Stolen Crystals Paula Harrison 9780857631169 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99SciFier: £2.02Friendship, animals and secret royal adventures! With over one million Rescue Princesses titles sold, this action-packed series is the perfect combination of good friends, beautiful dresses, ninja... -
Florrie by Anna Trench
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.92The story of female footballer Florrie and the amazing hidden history of the women's game come to life in this debut graphic novel about football, friendship and falling in love.When Florrie's... -
Trashed! Martha Freeman 9781665905350 [USED COPY]
SciFier: £22.88From Edgar Award-nominated author Martha Freeman comes a "delightful" (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade mystery following a young boy working at his family's secondhand store that is a steal-your-heart... -
Batman: Arkham Asylum The Deluxe Edition Grant Morrison 9781779513175
DC ComicsRRP: £32.00SciFier: £21.96Where all compulsions meet. In 1920, following the death of his disturbed mother, brilliant psychologist Amadeus Arkham began the conversion of his ancestral home into a hospital for the treatment... -
Empire V by Victor Pelevin
GollanczRRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong.He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a... -
Wong Kar-wai: Interviews Silver Wai-ming Lee 9781496820259
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.46Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only... -
Wes Craven: Interviews Shannon Blake Skelton 9781496826107
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
Strings: The Ables, Book 2 Jeremy Scott 9781684423392
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83"Smart, thought-provoking, and unique... readers won't want to put this eye-opening, explosive story down." -School Library Journal "Jeremy Scott brings his familiar snark from his CinemaSins... -
George MacDonald C. S. Lewis 9780008181246
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.18An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late... -
Barbara Kopple: Interviews Gregory Brown 9781628462128
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £90.99With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects... -
Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock Felan Parker 9780773554986
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.38The Bioshock series looms large in the industry and culture of video games for its ambitious incorporation of high-minded philosophical questions and retro-futuristic aesthetics into the ultraviolent... -
Stan Brakhage: Interviews Suranjan Ganguly 9781496810694
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks, his theoriesof vision and sound, the... -
Wilson by Daniel Clowes
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £12.39A new paperback edition of the modern classic timed to the release of the Alexander Payne-produced film version. Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly... -
Danny Boyle by Amy Raphael
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.61In this revelatory career-length biography, produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle, he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games as... -
Lost Illusions by David Cook
RRP: £41.00SciFier: £36.44The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but... -
The Visitors by Rebecca Mascull
SciFier: £20.49Imagine if you couldn't seecouldn't hearcouldn't speak...Then one day somebody took your hand and opened up the world to you.Adeliza Golding is a deaf-blind girl, born in late Victorian England on...