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A Deceptive Clarity Aaron Elkins 9781497642966
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £13.79An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake painting-and a real killer-in this mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Switcheroo. Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art... -
The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal Jim Burns 9781781168448
Titan BooksRRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.69This is a new collection of art from one of the UK's most acclaimed sci-fi artists featuring everything from his initial sketches to his final works and published book covers. It includes covers from... -
Gerhard Richter by Ortrud Westheider
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.30This publication is the first to focus solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richter's body of work. In the early 1960s, the artist began to call painting into... -
Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society Richard Dyer 9780415310277
SciFier: £37.66Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since... -
Ed Ruscha: Eilshemius and Me by Margaret Iverson
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £40.69Commemorating an exhibition at Gagosian, London, this catalog is the first publication to examine the connections between these two artists work. Two booklets in a softcover portfolio feature... -
Tales from High Hallack Volume Three by Andre Norton
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £16.99Twenty-one stories of fantasy, space, myth, and magic from the New York Times-bestselling author, "one of the pioneer women in science fiction" (Anne McCaffrey). In the third and final volume of... -
Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £22.07craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi... -
Nam June Paik: Art in Process by John Hanhardt
RRP: £77.00SciFier: £71.82Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in late-twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium. This book reflects on Paik s working method as well as the... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology by A Maxwell-Hyslop
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.31This concise, abridged edition of Pierre Grimal's celebrated DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY brilliantly distils and captures the essence of Greek and Roman mythology. It is the ideal reference... -
Wolves in Winter Lisa Hilton 9781848874688 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £2.26ITALY, 1492. Five-year-old Mura is a strange and bewitching child. Daughter of a Nordic mother and Spanish father, she has been tutored in both Arabic learning and the ancient mythology of the... -
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
RRP: £13.95SciFier: £11.99In this "astonishing fantasy debut," a mother and a mysterious Chinese man-who is more than he appears-search for her missing daughter in San Francisco (Locus). Offering "a deft blend of the oldest... -
Survival Guide (The Kane Chronicles) Rick Riordan 9780141344799
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64Fans of Rick Riordan will love this on the people, places, gods, and creatures found in the chart-topping Kane Chronicles series.Packed with brand new material - including an easy-to-assemble trading... -
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 9781784870164
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42Set during the Hundred Years War, the protagonist of The White Company is a cloister-raised young nobleman who discovers that his father's will stipulated he travelled for a year before taking his... -
Frau Faust 1 by Kore Yamazaki
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05A century after a scholar made a deal with a devil in exchange for eternal life, the story of Faust has passed into legend. But the real Faust is not a stuffy professorial man, but a woman, still on... -
Out of the Forests by Paul Bonner
Titan BooksRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.74Barely contained within this book is the high octane work of Paul Bonner, an intrepid artist able to vividly recall in paints his visits to Valhalla, the blasted future, and sundry haunted and... -
Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring Patch Zircher 9781787746428
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.97One of Robert E. Howard's iconic heroes returns with furious vengeance in his own solo comic series.The mighty Solomon Kane hunts for the Serpent Ring in this spectacular adventure fans of Howard and... -
Frau Faust 4 by Kore Yamazaki
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05A century after a scholar made a deal with a devil in exchange for eternal life, the story of Faust has passed into legend. But the real Faust is not a stuffy professorial man, but a woman, still on... -
Banksy: Building Castles in the Sky by Stefano Antonelli
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £26.28Catalogue to a major traveling exhibition focused on Banksy, the world's most popular graffiti artist whose real identity remains unknown despite his domination of the global street art scene for... -
Nineteen Eighty-four George Orwell 9780140817744
SciFier: £9.27Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian... -
Fred Schepisi by Tom Ryan
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b. 1939) as "probably the least-known great director working in the mainstream American cinema-a master storyteller with a serenely... -
The Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition by William J Higginson
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.82The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku... -
Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business David F. Walker 9781534312128
Image ComicsRRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.49Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, the Sangerye family specialized in curing the souls of those infected by hate, but those days are fading. A terrible tragedy has claimed most... -
Basquiat by Dieter Buchhart
RRP: £46.00SciFier: £38.40With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative... -
Gather the Fortunes: A Crescent City Novel Bryan Camp 9781789091229 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £3.37The exciting sequel to the stunning debut, The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp. Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps-the guides who lead the souls of the recently... -
Oakleaf Bearers (Ranger's Apprentice Book 4) by John Flanagan
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.44Oakleaf Bearers is the fourth thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series - over eight million sold worldwide.Evanlyn has been taken captive by a mysterious horseman. Will's attempts... -
Gather the Fortunes: A Crescent City Novel Bryan Camp 9781789091229
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45The exciting sequel to the stunning debut, The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp. Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps-the guides who lead the souls of the recently... -
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy by Jonathan Goossen
SciFier: £42.00Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle's dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama... -
When You Are Old William Yeats 9780143107644
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet spellbound by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting... -
Oakleaf Bearers (Ranger's Apprentice Book 4) John Flanagan 9780440867418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £0.98Oakleaf Bearers is the fourth thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series - over eight million sold worldwide.Evanlyn has been taken captive by a mysterious horseman. Will's attempts... -
To Embody the Marvellous: The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain Esther Fernandez 9780826501790
SciFier: £33.49In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious,... -
Devouring Time: Nostalgia in Contemporary Shakespearean Screen Adaptations Philippa Sheppard 9780773550209
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £20.16From Kenneth Branagh's groundbreaking Henry V to Justin Kurzel's haunting Macbeth, many modern filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare for the big screen. Their translations of Renaissance plays to... -
Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace by M. Burnett
SciFier: £46.99This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of... -
Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore Stephanie Burridge 9780815369431
SciFier: £46.33This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape,... -
To Embody the Marvellous: The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain Esther Fernandez 9780826501806
SciFier: £92.99In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious,... -
Veiled Presence by Paul Hills
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £44.86This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a... -
Disney's Animated Classics: A Comprehensive Guide Stephen Roetzsch Thomas 9781036120559
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.85Which Disney character is responsible for the most onscreen deaths? What are the entry requirements for becoming a Disney Princess? Why is Jiminy Cricket always breaking into people's homes? In... -
Raphael's Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X Lorraine Karafel 9780300181999
RRP: £47.50SciFier: £42.80Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with... -
Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace M. Burnett 9780230391451
SciFier: £46.99This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of... -
Letter To Grandson Jun: I Found Myself Hiking Anthony Soon Chye Teo (S'pore Univ Of Social Sciences, S'pore) 9789811255915
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £18.85Raised on a farm near Changi (visited by Albert Einstein in the 1920s), Anthony Teo attended Singapore's 19th century St Anthony's Boys School and St Joseph's Institution. Having completed a course... -
Letter To Grandson Jun: I Found Myself Hiking Anthony Soon Chye Teo (S'pore Univ Of Social Sciences, S'pore) 9789811255199
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £41.56Raised on a farm near Changi (visited by Albert Einstein in the 1920s), Anthony Teo attended Singapore's 19th century St Anthony's Boys School and St Joseph's Institution. Having completed a course...