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Nabokov at the Movies by Barbara Wyllie
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of Laughter in the Dark: ""I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a film."" The relevance of film to the novelist's art remains a preoccupying question in... -
Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd Edition: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition Therese Grisham 9781978846135
RRP: £96.00SciFier: £78.62The updated edition of Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition, an in-depth exploration of Lupino's film and television directing work, provides close readings of the... -
Kay Francis by Lynn Kear
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.91Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era's hedonistic pursuits. Her career as an actress was launched at the same time, and before her death in 1968, she had appeared... -
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The Gun Seller Hugh Laurie 9780099469391 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.35When Thomas Lang, a hired gunman with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished... -
Basic Instinct by Stevie Simkin
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £25.24Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller Basic Instinct - starring Michael Douglas as a police detective and Sharon Stone as the femme fatale Catherine Tramell - was one of the first mainstream 'erotic... -
Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites Jurgen Muller 9783754404089
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.72Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. This film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir... -
Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes Jeffrey A. Brown 9781978825277
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £48.76Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key part of the ongoing drama. Such is the state of... -
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76When Thomas Lang, a hired gunman with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished... -
The Bigamist Amelie Hastie 9781844572663
SciFier: £11.71Directed by the actor/film-maker Ida Lupino, The Bigamist (1953) is the story of Harry Graham, a salesman travelling between two towns and two wives. In its portrayal of Harry's 'double life', the... -
Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes Jeffrey A. Brown 9781978825260
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key part of the ongoing drama. Such is the state of... -
The Human Target Book Two Tom King 9781779520210
DC ComicsRRP: £26.00SciFier: £17.59Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood continue the noir examination of a classic DC character! Christopher Chance has... -
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction Dr Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781780933269
SciFier: £104.49What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study,... -
Dead Letters Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela
Boom! StudiosSciFier: £7.66Waking up in a fleabag motel with bandaged arms and a revolver on his desk, Sam doesn't remember a thing - not how he got here, where here is, or who he is. But the armed men knocking on his door do... -
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction Dr Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781780933139
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.49What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study,... -
Penny Dreadful and Adaptation by Julie Grossman
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime's 2020 spin-off... -
Claire Trevor by Derek Sculthorpe
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81As cute as lace pants..."" An alluring blonde with a uniquely seductive voice, Claire Trevor is chiefly remembered now for her many femme fatale roles in a series of iconic noirs such as Murder, My... -
The Late Train to Gipsy Hill: Charming debut mystery from a highly respected former MP Alan Johnson 9781472286147
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £5.97A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ...'The Girl on the Train with a dash of Russian poisoning and a classic femme fatale' Sunday... -
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The Late Train to Gipsy Hill: The gripping and fast-paced thriller Alan Johnson 9781472286147 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.48A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ...'The Girl on the Train with a dash of Russian poisoning and a classic femme fatale' Sunday... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
SciFier: £11.35Richard Schickel study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era Dr David Roche (Universite Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France) 9781350272453
SciFier: £34.99Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or... -
French Concession by Xiao Bai
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.49An acclaimed Chinese writer makes his English language debut with this heart-stopping literary noir, a richly atmospheric tale of espionage and international intrigue, set in Shanghai in 1931-an... -
The Human Target Book Two Tom King 9781779525284
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £9.99Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood continue the noir examination of a classic DC character!2023 Eisner Winner - Best... -
The Late Train to Gipsy Hill: Charming debut mystery from a highly respected former MP Alan Johnson 9781472286123
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.99A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ...'The Girl on the Train with a dash of Russian poisoning and a classic femme fatale' Sunday... -
The Late Train to Gipsy Hill: Charming debut mystery from a highly respected former MP Alan Johnson 9781472286130
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.80A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ...'The Girl on the Train with a dash of Russian poisoning and a classic femme fatale' Sunday... -
Hanyo (The Housemaid) by Youngmin Choe
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy..... -
Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses Vanessa Brown 9780857854452
SciFier: £33.99Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic... -
Turn on the Heat by Erle Stanley Gardner
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.04From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency:... -
Codename Baboushka Volume 1: The Conclave of Death by Antony Johnston
Image ComicsRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83"What if the sexy Russian femme fatale was actually the main character?"Mysterious young heiress Contessa Annika Malikova has been part of Manhattan high society for several years... but if they... -
Face Meat Taro Bonten 9781961581074
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £12.09A headless busty blonde, a face-stealing psychopath, a sleazy serial-killer sculptor, a horny handsome hunchback, a vengeful caterpillar cuckold, a torturous hangover in the pits of hell. Welcome... -
Out of the Past by Barry Gifford
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.75For both the film buff and the general moviegoer a handbook that unlocks the secrets of a hundred noir movies ""Gifford knows his noir. The essays are better than some of the films he writes about.""... -
She H. Rider Haggard 9780140437638
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.29Drawing on his fascination with African lore and his love of adventure to create a seminal work of fantasy, H. Rider Haggard's She is edited with an introduction by Patrick Brantlinger in Penguin... -
Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese by Dita Von Teese
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.13On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of... -
Front Sight: Three Swagger Novellas Stephen Hunter 9781668030363
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.41This collection of three interconnected novellas follows each generation of the iconic Swagger family-grandfather Charles, father Earl, and fan favorite hero Bob Lee-from New York Times bestselling... -
Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction by James Naremore (Emeritus Chancellors' Professor, Indiana University)
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.29Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy,... -
Gun Honey Vol.2 Charles Adai 9781787739048
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97Fans of the first graphic novel and classic pulp crime fiction will get a thrill out of this fast-paced, mystery thriller. Joanna Tan is back, sexier and deadlier than ever... She'll get you the... -
Detour Noah Isenberg 9781844572397
SciFier: £11.71Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition. In the words... -
One Of Our Ministers Is Missing: From the award-winning writer and former MP Alan Johnson 9781472286239
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.77'Richard Osman, here's a bullet with your name on it' TimesA government minister has vanished into thin air.The local police in the isolated island of Crete have no leads, save for a mobile phone... -
Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition Therese Grisham 9780813574905
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino... -
Luda: A novel Grant Morrison 9781787704855
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.95Luci LaBang is a star: for decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she's the leading lady in a smash hit pantomime. When Luci's co-star meets with a... -
On Audrey Hepburn: An Opinionated Guide Steven Cohan (Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University) 9780197668283
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.35Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from...