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Giving Offence Martin Rowson 9781906497019
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £13.36Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years-and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer - visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since... -
Karel Reisz by Colin Gardner
SciFier: £22.99Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of... -
Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood Hilary Hallett 9780520274099
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing... -
Cinematic Journeys by Dimitris Eleftheriotis
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £30.29Cinematic Journeys explores the interconnected histories, theories and aesthetics of mobile vision and cinematic movement. It traces the links between certain types of movement of/in the frame and... -
Vampyr by David Rudkin (Author)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.66Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed... -
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Something Like Fire Lin Cook 9780099460350 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £2.01An intimate and entertaining portrait of one of comedy's greatest geniuses by those who knew Peter Cook best and can write abut his rare talent. The contributors include Clive Anderson, Alan Bennett,... -
A Postmodern Cinema by Mary Alemany-Galway
SciFier: £92.99A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers... -
The Chrysalids John Wyndham 9780141032979
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC Radio 4.David Strorm's father doesn't approve of... -
Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies Sarah Keller (Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Colby College) 9780231180863
SciFier: £94.31The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places... -
Fireside Gothic by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a collection of three gothic novellas - Broken Voices, The Leper House and The Scratch - perfect for... -
The Song of Seven by Tonke Dragt (Author)
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.28A beautiful flapped paperback edition of this stand-alone adventure by the author of The Letter for the King Deep in the woods, a young boy is kept prisoner by his uncle. He cannot meet other... -
Agency: Sequel to The Peripheral, now a major new TV series with Amazon Prime William Gibson 9780241974575
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM WILLIAM GIBSON, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER-----San Francisco, 2017. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened - and Verity... -
An Act Of Courage by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.74THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson brings us another compelling and deeply atmospheric adventure featuring Matthew Hervey. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS... -
Clown Town: The Thriller for Our Chaotic Times (Slough House Thriller 9) Mick Herron 9781399800440
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller from the Author of Slow HorsesSUNDAY TIMES, THRILLER OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, CRIME BOOK OF THE YEARDAILY TELEGRAPH, BOOK OF THE YEARTLS, BOOK OF THE YEARTHE... -
Gabriel's Moon William Boyd 9780241542071
SciFier: £16.20** FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RESTLESS AND ANY HUMAN HEART **'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun' MICK... -
Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood's Golden Age (1951-1963) Jasmine Sofia Jannif 9781839996177
SciFier: £79.53The considerably large critical literature on Bollywood cinema is marked by an absence as it has not engaged fully with the ways in which songs lead to the memorial construction of films and how a... -
Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld Tyler Weaver 9780240823782
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £34.23Writers, directors, and producers- reach a wider audience by embracing comics to supplement your own ideas, and offer more options for audience engagement.Comics are a key element in today's... -
Deadlock by Colin Forbes
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £15.49'COLIN FORBES HAS NO EQUAL AT THIS SORT OF THING' SUNDAY MIRROR When a brilliant and ruthless master planner from the Soviet Union's elite forces vanishes, Tweed of the SIS is summoned to an... -
Theater after Film by Professor Martin Harries
SciFier: £24.16A study of the impact of film and mass culture on drama after World War II. In Theater after Film, Martin Harries argues that after 1945, as cinema became omnipresent in popular culture, theater had... -
Actors and the Art of Performance by Susanne Granzer
SciFier: £21.49Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on... -
Aladdin: A New Translation Paulo Lemos Horta (New York University) 9781631495168
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.42Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagination-and occasionally dark themes-now comes to vibrant new... -
The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait Olivia Gruber Florek 9781644532850
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.00Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and... -
The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait Olivia Gruber Florek 9781644532867
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and... -
Peter Pan: Or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up - A Fantasy in Five Acts J.M. Barrie 9780413735508
SciFier: £14.49Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted generations of theatre-goers. J M... -
At the Derby: Kentucky's Grandest Celebration of Fashion Lili Kobielski 9780847842247
RRP: £32.50SciFier: £24.72Although the Kentucky Derby is officially about horses, it s also very much about the spectators, the dresses, the suits, the hats, the blazers the scene! From the fantastic to the sublime, the sky s... -
The Big Hippo Guide to Democracy, Referendums, General Elections ( and all that ) by Bob Marshall Andrews
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.27The world of Westminster laid bare in cool, understated prose brimming with irony and complemented by Martin Rowson's sharp, satirical drawings.A brief guide to how democracy works, or fails to work... -
The Queen Alone K. A. S. Quinn 9781848870567
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.29Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is a lonely New York teenager. It's Christmas, and with her pop-star mother away on a whirlwind tour, all is not well with Katie. She is having visions. She remembers... ... -
Norse Tales: Stories of Odin and Loki on Middle Earth by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59The extraordinary companion title to the critically-acclaimed Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki, from a Carnegie Medal-winning author. Enter an ancient world of green glades and glaciers,... -
The Book Was Better: The Triumphs and Travesties of Book to Film Adaptation Louise Willder 9780861547722
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.49Is the book always better than the film? Yes, book lovers cry! Hollywood never gets it right - they gloss over crucial moments, the dialogue sounds bizarre and the characters never look like... -
Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Created King Kong Neil Clark 9781803993799
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.40'It is impossible not to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace.' So said the blurbs of Wallace's own books.Indeed, he was a prolific author of over 170 books, translated into more than thirty languages. More... -
Precipice Robert Harris 9781804941294
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.00A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF WAR. AN AFFAIR ON THE EDGE OF SCANDAL.FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A riveting tale of politics, war and erotic obsession' Sunday Times'His most... -
Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche John Higgs 9781399600170
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . . page... -
Bad Actors: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller Mick Herron 9781529378726
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination Dominic Sandbrook 9780141979304
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.61'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of... -
Alain Resnais: Interviews Lynn A. Higgins 9781496833945
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £101.99Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not originally set out to become a director. He trained as an actor and film editor and,... -
Alain Resnais: Interviews Lynn A. Higgins 9781496833938
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not originally set out to become a director. He trained as an actor and film editor and,... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393247879
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.02In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
The Nickel Was for the Movies: Film in the Novel from Pirandello to Puig Gavriel Moses 9780520079434
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £49.49The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human... -
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A Colder War (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller, Book 2) Charles Cumming 9780007467501 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £2.57From the Top 10 Sunday Times bestselling author and winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. Perfect for fans of John le Carre, Charles Cumming is 'the... -
Fleabag: The Scriptures: The Sunday Times Bestseller Phoebe Waller-Bridge 9781529341799
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24The complete Fleabag. Every Word. Every Side-eye. Every Fox.Fleabag: The Scriptures includes the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA...