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Classics in Film and Fiction Deborah Cartmell 9780745315881
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $32.51This 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'... -
Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema Benoit Turquety 9781041177913
RRP: $66.71SciFier: $60.78Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European... -
Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK) 9781138232297
SciFier: $53.56This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric... -
Freedom by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $8.33SciFier: $7.12Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced... -
The Labyrinth Simon Stalenhag 9781398509993
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $25.80The Labyrinth is a unique vision of a dystopian future from one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world. A world covered by ruins and ash, the remnants of an otherworldly phenomenon... -
The Untouchable John Banville 9781035076802
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08Inspired by the true story of Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five spy ring, The Untouchable is a beautifully crafted novel by John Banville, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Sea.Victor Maskell... -
Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide Merryl Wyn-Davis 9781848311688
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.65Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved'... -
The Living Statue by Gunter Grass
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $12.08At the end of the 1980s, a writer on a book tour, who very much resembles Grass, passes through East Germany and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the... -
Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 9780753513743
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $16.11Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since H. P. Lovecraft. His work is noted by critics for its display of an exceptionally grotesque... -
What Ended the Golden Age of Airships? The Hindenburg Disaster: A Who HQ Graphic Novel Chris Kindred 9780593661550
RRP: $19.45SciFier: $13.54Discover how the Hindenburg's last flight changed the future of flying in this dynamic graphic novel by author Chris Kindred and Edgar- and Ignatz-nominated illustrator Ru Xu.Presenting Who HQ... -
Jamaica Anansi Stories Martha Warren Beckwith 9781513218694
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $17.71Jamaica Anansi Stories is a collection of folklore by Martha Warren Beckwith. Having studied under famed ethnographer Franz Boas at Columbia University, Beckwith dedicated her career to recording and... -
Ruins Peter Kuper 9781914224188
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $18.75A story of love, adventure, and politics-and two lives changed forever by Mexico and the monarch butterfly Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of... -
An Aesthetics of Injury by Ian Fleishman
SciFier: $51.79An Aesthetics of Injury exposes wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound-texts that aim not only to depict but also to... -
Jamaica Anansi Stories Martha Warren Beckwith 9781513290744
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $12.84Jamaica Anansi Stories is a collection of folklore by Martha Warren Beckwith. Having studied under famed ethnographer Franz Boas at Columbia University, Beckwith dedicated her career to recording and... -
What Ended the Golden Age of Airships? The Hindenburg Disaster: A Who HQ Graphic Novel Chris Kindred 9780593661543
RRP: $11.11SciFier: $8.21Discover how the Hindenburg's last flight changed the future of flying in this dynamic graphic novel by author Chris Kindred and Edgar- and Ignatz-nominated illustrator Ru Xu.Presenting Who HQ... -
Things from the Flood Simon Stalenhag 9781471194436
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $25.80'Gorgeously creepy and strangely human' - National Public Radio It started on Christmas Day in 1994. Dark water suddenly rose from the land, invading our homes and lives. They say it came from the... -
The Secret Guests Benjamin Black 9780241305317
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $18.53For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World WarIt is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to... -
Black Out by John Lawton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $13.19Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' - Daily TelegraphThe first book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective... -
Steven Soderbergh by Jason Wood
SciFier: $4.31Who is Soderbergh? Currently Hollywood's hottest hot shot, Soderbergh burst onto the independent scene with his provocative, multi-award winning feature debut sex, lies and videotape in 1989. With... -
R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self David Stephen Calonne 9781496831859
RRP: $151.51SciFier: $141.77Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as... -
R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self David Stephen Calonne 9781496831866
RRP: $40.24SciFier: $31.36Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as... -
The Handmaid's Tale: Vintage Quarterbound Classics Margaret Atwood 9781784879679
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $18.68A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel.'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' GuardianOffred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian... -
Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle Mark M. Anderson (Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) 9780198159070
SciFier: $83.61'One should either be a work of art, or wear one', proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; 'I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else' Franz Kafka... -
Play Redux by David Myers
SciFier: $81.88"Play Redux excels in tying together intellectual traditions that are rooted in literary studies, cognitive science, play studies and several other fields, thereby creating a logical whole. Through... -
Lynd Ward: Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage (LOA #210) by Lynd Ward
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $40.95Edited by Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MausA wordless novel in woodcuts from Lynd Ward, a pioneering artist/novelist who was "an unmistakable soul-companion to ... -
Don Quixote of La Mancha: (in Spanglish) Miguel de Cervantes 9780271082301
RRP: $20.78SciFier: $20.24Publisheado originalmente en two partes en 1605 y 1615 y often considereado "the first novela moderna," Don Quixote de Miguel de Cervantes es indudablemente el libro mas influencial del canon... -
World Projects by Markus Krajewski
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects... -
Interesting Drug by Shaun Manning
RRP: $26.40SciFier: $23.41Once a brilliant mind, a tragic event led Andrew Smith into a life of mediocrity. But when a man from the future reveals that Andrew is about to develop a drug to travel through time, suddenly he... -
Theology and the Marvel Universe Gregory Stevenson, Rochester University 9781978706170
SciFier: $52.81In Theology and the Marvel Universe, fourteen contributors examine theological themes and ideas in the comic books, television shows, and films that make up the grand narrative of the Marvel Universe... -
A Brief History of Living Forever Jaroslav Kalfar 9781529368819
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20'Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo' Daily Telegraph'A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch' New York Times'Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch' EsquireAdela, diagnosed... -
The Handmaid's Tale: The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series Margaret Atwood 9780099511663
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $9.48** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments.'The Handmaid's Tale changed me... -
The President's Room by Ricardo Romero
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $10.02A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."-Kirkus ReviewsIn a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No... -
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
SciFier: $23.48Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people - and monsters and trees and jocular octopi - who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In... -
Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa
Viz MediaRRP: $26.40SciFier: $19.72Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately... -
A Brief History of Living Forever Jaroslav Kalfar 9781529368789
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.01'Ambitious, exciting . . . touches of Don DeLillo' Daily Telegraph'A Kurt Vonnegut-like satirical touch' New York Times'Inventive and heartfelt . . . packs a walloping punch' EsquireWhen Adela... -
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 9781784874872
SciFier: $11.95** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ****A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ**Discover the cultural phenomenon behind the award-winning TV series that feels all the more powerful and prescient... -
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 9781784871444
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.79** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The TestamentsNOW AN AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES STARRING... -
Last Days Brian Evenson 9781566894166
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $16.67Evenson is a major figure among writers who straddle the line between genre forms and literary concerns, and he was recently the subject of a 5 x 5 interview (five interviewers, and spread over five... -
The Handmaid's Tale: The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series Margaret Atwood 9780099740919
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.41** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ****A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ**Discover the cultural phenomenon behind the award-winning TV series that feels all the more powerful and prescient... -
The Hammer Story: Revised and Expanded Edition by Marcus Hearn
Titan BooksRRP: $41.69SciFier: $31.76The only authorised history of Hammer Films draws on exclusive access to the company's archive of stills and paperwork to give the complete history of the company and its leading figures, a...