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The Book of Splendor by Frances Sherwood
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £19.99Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of Splendor is an adventure-filled... -
Rustication: A Novel Charles Palliser 9780393349818
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.77Christmas 1863. Seventeen-year-old Richard Shenstone has been sent down from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by disturbing sexual desires, he finds temporary... -
Bearmouth: A Novel Liz Hyder 9781324019718
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.49Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labor and isolation, where daylight is a distant memory. Newt has lived in the mine since the age of four, and accepts everything from the harsh working conditions to... -
Contract with God Trilogy by Will Eisner
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £31.79Will Eisner (1917-2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was... -
Rustication: A Novel Charles Palliser 9780393088724
SciFier: £19.44Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million... -
The Illegal: A Novel Lawrence Hill 9780393353686
SciFier: £14.89Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of... -
The Building Will Eisner 9780393328165
SciFier: £13.69With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents one of his renowned celebrations of the Big Apple. No... -
Warning Shadows by Gary Giddins (The Leon Levy Center for Biography)
RRP: £22.50SciFier: £21.79In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have... -
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.79Lydia Millet's previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet... -
The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb by R. Crumb
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £25.79Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally... -
That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream Ellin Stein 9780393074093
SciFier: £20.61Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation... -
The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74When is an old truck something more? On a small, bustling farm, a resilient and steadfast pickup works tirelessly alongside the family that lives there, and becomes a part of the dreams and ambitions... -
Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair Jarrett Pumphrey 9781324053040
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.58Lincoln and Hudson Dupre are brothers with what grown-ups call "active imaginations". Link and Hud hunt for yetis in the Himalayas and battle orcs on epic quests. Unfortunately, their imaginary... -
Albertus by Simon Garfield
SciFier: £14.79Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and... -
Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair Jarrett Pumphrey 9781324016090
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.79Lincoln and Hudson Dupre are brothers with what grown-ups call "active imaginations". Link and Hud hunt for yetis in the Himalayas and battle orcs on epic quests. Unfortunately, their imaginary... -
The Hatmakers Tamzin Merchant 9781324020035
SciFier: £10.35The most important rule to follow when you hunt for hat ingredients is this: keep wildness in your wits and magic in your fingertips. In Cordelia's London, magic is real and is woven into objects... -
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice Tommie Smith 9781324052159
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74On 16 October 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium... -
The Smoke That Thunders Erhu Kome 9781324082262
SciFier: £8.69In this mesmerizing fantasy rooted in Urhobo and West African folklore, sixteen-year-old Naborhi longs for a life away from her small, traditional clan in Kokori. But as her rite of passage... -
Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work Susan L. Mizruchi 9780393351200
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.16When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the film star, the hunk and the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the... -
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale Belle Yang 9780393339963
RRP: £37.50SciFier: £30.39When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents' home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. The history she'd ignored while... -
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice Tommie Smith 9781324003908
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.13On 16 October 1968, during the medal ceremonyat the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, thegold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, andJohn Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on thepodium in... -
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
RRP: £19.00SciFier: £18.74On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked and eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself... -
Baskerville by Simon Garfield
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.79When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers' eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains... -
Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work Susan L. Mizruchi 9780393082869
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £20.21When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando's Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four... -
Brightstorm Vashti Hardy 9781324005643
SciFier: £14.09Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are devastated to learn that their famous explorer father has died in a failed attempt to reach South Polaris, the southernmost point in the world. To make matters... -
Play Outside! by Laurent Moreau
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.49Two children are running around the house, knocking over furniture and getting in their mother's way, so she tells them to go and play outside. Beginning in the garden, their outdoor adventure takes... -
Comic Sans by Simon Garfield
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.69Since its accidental creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools' pranks and endless... -
Link + Hud: Creatures from the Cul-de-Sac Jerome Pumphrey 9781324082026
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.69It's October. Halloween is almost here, and brothers Lincoln and Hudson Dupre are excited about their first time trick-or-treating without their parents. But odd and spooky things start happening on... -
The Monsters We Made Peyton June 9781324083436
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £12.69To save her family's struggling ranch, 18-year-old Claire fabricates a video of her hometown's legendary alien cryptid, Old Lucky, that grabs the attention of paranormal vloggers Lenny and Evan... -
Link + Hud: Sharks & Minnows by Jerome Pumphrey
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.37Lincoln and Hudson Dupre are ready for their summer vacation at the coast. The ocean is perfect for their imagined escapades, but when their dad cuts their trip short, it seems like the end of Link... -
We Became Wild: A Novel H. D. Carver 9781324124979
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £12.69Seventeen-year-old Lottie Mitchell is a liar. She might also be a horrible person-because someone good wouldn't have caused the death of her best friend, Val. Messina, Lottie's other best friend, has... -
Survivor: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk 9780393355932
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.78Tender Branson-last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult-is dictating his life story into the recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He... -
Last Night I Dreamed of Home: A Novel Sophie Li 9781324082859
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.19After botching the only exam that matters in China, Alice arrives at college eager to party like the North Americans on TV-not to hang out with a studious boy who reminds her why she left home. ... -
A Firing Offense: A Novel David Ignatius 9780393346282
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.59When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting... -
The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes Landis Blair 9780393651621
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.59Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humour into brief, rhyming... -
See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor: A Graphic Memoir Grace Farris, MD 9781324079019
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.54Bridging her passion for illustration with her vocation as a doctor, Grace Farris has built a devoted audience for her comics storytelling. In the tradition of physician-memoirs by Suzanne Koven,... -
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings Jan Harold Brunvand (University of Utah) 9780393951691
SciFier: £22.66Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends-including "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs"-and provides an enlightening... -
There Is Happiness by Brad Watson (University of Wyoming, Laramie)
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.67Darkly comedic, lyrically mighty, and unabashedly vulnerable, There Is Happiness brings together Brad Watson's most celebrated pieces alongside new, unpublished works. Watson's characters-often boys... -
The Neverending Book Naoki Matayoshi 9781324123804
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £17.89An aged, near-blind, book-loving king sends two of his subjects out into the world to learn about unusual and magical books. One year later, they return to tell the whimsical, tender, and touching... -
Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy by Megan A. Connell
RRP: £30.99SciFier: £29.78Across the globe, therapists are using tabletop roleplaying games (RPG) such as Dungeons & Dragons as a part of their practice. This book provides an overview of what RPGs are and what makes them...