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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... -
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... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195928
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £93.71Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
The Human Factor Graham Greene 9780099288527
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the... -
Poor Things: Now an award-winning major film Alasdair Gray 9781526657886
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.12WINNER OF TWO GOLDEN GLOBES, STARRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize A life without freedom to choose is not... -
Norfolk Summer: Making the Go-Between by Christopher Hartop
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.02Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in... -
They Must Be Represented by Paula Rabinowitz
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.99They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on... -
The Double: (Enemy) Jose Saramago 9780099461654
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in... -
Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781406391763
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.94The 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,... -
Story Of O: The bestselling French erotic romance Pauline Reage 9780552089302
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.76The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as 'O', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is... -
Film Studies, second edition: An Introduction Ed Sikov 9780231195935
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.53Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the... -
The Stone Bird Jenny McCartney 9781783445974
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.53It might look like a pebble from the beach, but Eliza knows this is an egg. And one night when she hears cracking, she discovers the Stone Bird. It might still look like a stone to her mum, but Eliza... -
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Dana Polan (New York University, UK)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.35Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape. ... -
Directory of World Cinema: Spain by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28Though loved by moviegoers worldwide, Spanish cinema has thus far suffered from a relative lack of critical attention. Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations... -
Performance Projections by Stephen Barber
SciFier: £32.81Performance Projections explores the dynamic relationship between film and performance, from the origins of film in Europe and the U.S. to examples in the world of contemporary digital media... -
Faeries of the Faultlines: Faery Journal by Iris Compiet
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £12.69Artist Iris Compiet is your guide to the Faultlines, the places in our world where the veil thins between this realm and the next and we are able to glimpse the creatures and magic beyond. In her... -
Analyzing Performance: Theater, Dance, and Film Patrice Pavis 9780472066896
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £24.19Analyzing Performance provides conceptual tools for understanding a range of performance, including theater, dance, cinema, other audiovisual media, and mime. This richly illustrated book develops... -
Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film Christian Metz 9780231173674
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £27.31Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the... -
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend Peter Ackroyd 9780140455656
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39A gripping retelling of the timeless epic of romance, enchantment and adventure, Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur recasts Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in clear, compelling modern... -
The Curse of the School Rabbit by Judith Kerr
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.64"The final masterpiece from one of the greatest storytellers and illustrators of all time" - David Walliams The hilarious story of one boy, one rabbit, and a... -
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan Ursula Buchan 9781408870822
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film,... -
Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood Hilary Hallett 9780520274082
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £54.49In 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... -
Memento by Dr. Claire Molloy
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Ambiguous, complex and innovative, Christopher Nolan's Memento has intrigued audiences and critics since the day of its release. Memento is the archetypal 'puzzle film', a noir thriller about a man... -
The Penelopiad Philip Pullman 9781837260928
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.5520th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORAND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMANNow that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I'll spin my... -
Earwig by Brian Catling
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97Slender like as stiletto... a book full of sadness, madness and badness - The Spectator___________________________________________________________________________________A standalone novel by iconic... -
The Servants of Twilight: A dark and compulsive thriller Dean Koontz 9781472248350
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97To his mother, Joey seems an ordinary six-year-old boy - special to her, but to no one else. To the Servants of Twilight, he is an evil presence who must be destroyed - an Anti-Christ who must die... -
Republic of Dreams by Richard Lambert
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.27TWO WORLDS. ONE VILLAIN AND A RACE AGAINST TIME. Nicodemus Maladain has entered our world from Balthasar, intent on revenge. Can Toby and Tamurlaine, about to be crowned Queen of Balthasar, defeat... -
Moonlight by Maria Flood
SciFier: £20.33This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of... -
Angel on the Roof Shirley Hughes 9781406394764
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72A timeless and heart-warming story about friendship and understanding by the Kate Greenaway-winning author of Dogger.In this heart-warming Christmas story, by celebrated author Shirley Hughes, a... -
The Original Bambi by Felix Salten
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.43A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambi-the original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambi-but do we? The Original Bambi... -
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow Natasha Pulley 9781408885147
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74'A Japan that never was, a future lost, ghosts that are not dead ... not even a partial list of ingredients can do justice to this wonderful cake of a book ... A time-defying thriller' ROBIN HOBB ... -
Kalevala by Elias Loennrot
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York TimesSharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in... -
The Confidential Agent Graham Greene 9780099286196
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William GoldingIn a small continental country civil war is... -
The Horror Sensorium by Angela Ndalianis
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Horror films, books and video games engage their audiences through combinations of storytelling practices, emotional experiences, cognitive responses and physicality that ignite the sensorium--the... -
Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys Norton Juster 9780007455683
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.99Three tales of wit and wonder from the children's classic author of 'The Phantom Tollbooth'. Unlikely hero Alberic is on a seemingly endless search for wisdom. He learns much along the way... -
Shadow Town by Richard Lambert
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.59A thrilling fantasy set in a land of shadows-Toby stumbles into a new world in which everything seems possible, and dangerous. Sunday Times & Times best Books of the Year 2021. 'An evocative fantasy... -
Absolute Power: The very first iconic thriller from the number one bestseller David Baldacci 9781035007486
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34**INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR**Set at the heart of political power in Washington DC, Absolute Power is the book which launched David Baldacci's career as a worldwide... -
The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly... -
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall Chelsea McCracken (, State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, USA.) 9781839025082
RRP: £65.00SciFier: £51.95100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that... -
Spies and Other Gods James Wolff 9781399826310
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12The Head of British Intelligence is having a bad day. Only six months off retirement and Sir William Rentoul is wondering if he'll make it that far, what with the sudden descent of a brain fog dense...