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Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey 9781472280879
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $8.71THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* - MILLIONS OF COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEGloriously bonkers - Guardian, Best Autobiographies and Memoirs of 2020A rollicking, contemplative trip - Financial TimesFrom the... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism Malcolm Turvey 9780231193023
SciFier: $108.70Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition Joi Carr 9781433196966
RRP: $125.96SciFier: $113.89In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
One Jar of Magic Corey Ann Haydu 9780062689856
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $16.40From the critically acclaimed author of Eventown comes a hopeful and empowering tale set in an enchanting world of magic and mysterious family secrets-perfect for fans of Anne Ursu, Rebecca Stead,... -
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura 9781501713620
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $34.41During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign... -
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary N. Katherine Hayles 9780268030841
RRP: $111.22SciFier: $100.55A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however,... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition Joi Carr 9781433189760
RRP: $56.28SciFier: $52.92In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
Citizen Spielberg Lester D. Friedman 9780252086182
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $26.08Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle,... -
Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach Lee Michael Cohn 9780367548452
SciFier: $46.98Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique to the craft of directing.Lee Cohn lays out a step-by-step, no-nonsense... -
Whiplash River by Lou Berney
SciFier: $16.07"Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romance...as compelling as the mystery... -
The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda: A Novel Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo 9781631524813
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $15.40As he stumbles through an afterlife he never believed in, scientist Kenzaboro Tsuruda must make sense of his life and confront his family's secrets in order to save his ancestors from becoming Hungry... -
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Theodora Goss 9781481466516
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this "tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut... -
Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $29.15As featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable, Mental Floss, Book Riot and more!"Weird Al" Yankovic continues as one of our most beloved comedians, actors, and... -
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games Bo Ruberg 9781478005919
RRP: $113.90SciFier: $90.41In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous... -
3ds Max Modeling for Games: Insider's Guide to Game Character, Vehicle, and Environment Modeling Andrew Gahan 9780240815824
RRP: $65.65SciFier: $58.16With 18 years under his belt in the game industry, a key contributor to the MotorStorm series, and the creator of the 3ds Max in Minutes video series (at FocalPress.com), Andrew Gahan delivers the... -
Strange Folk You'll Never Meet by A.A. Balaskovits
RRP: $18.69SciFier: $13.69From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from... -
Happiness for Humans: the quirky romantic comedy for anyone looking for their soulmate P. Z. Reizin 9780751566727 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $2.71'Loved this book. Funny, quirky, unexpected' Jojo Moyes'Very clever and great fun' Kate Eberlen'Bridget Jones' diary for the digital age' Daily RecordHappiness for Humans is a joyful, romantic and... -
Future Luxe: What's Ahead for the Business of Luxury Erwan Rambourg 9781773271262
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $19.77In Future Luxe: What's Ahead for the Business of Luxury, Erwan Rambourg identifies the major forces and emerging trends that are set to reshape luxury over the next decade. The expansion of Chinese... -
The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media Bruce Block 9781138014152
RRP: $50.91SciFier: $45.81This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how... -
Prewriting Your Screenplay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Generating Stories Michael Tabb 9781138482296
SciFier: $50.18Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story's foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design... -
The Ninth Metal: The Comet Cycle Book 1 Benjamin Percy 9781473690073
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.07'Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' STEPHEN KING It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new. They called the comet Cain, after the... -
Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68"An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history; ideal for those new to the subject."--School Library Journal (review of volume 1) This latest volume in the Understanding... -
Trouble the Waters by Sheree Renee Thomas
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.28Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction... -
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds John Everson 9781787586260
RRP: $17.35SciFier: $12.31"Passionate, overwhelming, a classic thriller with a rock rhythm." - Ernesto Gastaldi, screenwriter of So Sweet... So Perverse "I read this story with ever-increasing interest. The dynamics and... -
Cinema and the Swastika by Kenneth A. Loparo
SciFier: $124.61This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically,... -
The Starseekers: A Murder and Magic Novel Nicole Glover 9780063293632
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $11.01Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world of The Conductors, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic..... -
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds John Everson 9781787586284
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $18.92"Passionate, overwhelming, a classic thriller with a rock rhythm." - Ernesto Gastaldi, screenwriter of So Sweet... So Perverse "I read this story with ever-increasing interest. The dynamics and... -
Produce Your Own Damn Movie! Lloyd Kaufman 9780240810454
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $26.57When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. He reveals the best ways to seek out... -
Voice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Filmmaking Mick Hurbis-Cherrier (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA) 9780367758677
SciFier: $82.18Develop your creative voice whilst acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-Cherrier's filmmaking bible, Voice & Vision... -
The Making of Modern China by Jing Liu
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68"Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial ChinaThe fourth volume in the... -
Do The Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Dr Ben Saunders 9780826441980
SciFier: $37.51This title is a consideration of the modern Superhero comic as an expression of spiritual desire, showing what Superheroes can teach about our most essential human needs. Ben Saunders shows that... -
After Sundown Mark Morris 9781787584570
RRP: $26.80SciFier: $19.86NOMINATED FOR A SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD AND BRITISH FANTASY AWARD "This rich and masterful collection of horror highlights both up-and-coming and established authors in an interesting twist on the... -
The Butcher's Daughter David Demchuk 9781835410868
Titan BooksRRP: $13.39SciFier: $9.43An eerie and evocative Victorian-set horror thriller about how a well-meaning butcher's daughter from London's Whitechapel grew up to become the baker who stuffed her pies with the flesh of Sweeney... -
The Dream Hotel: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Laila Lalami 9781526687166
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $11.38* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 ** A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 *Sara is at the airport, travelling home from a work conference. Out of nowhere she's pulled aside... -
The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News D. Michael Rivage-Seul 9781433149511
RRP: $137.69SciFier: $124.61D. Michael Rivage-Seul's eye-opening new book, The Magic Glasses of Critical Thinking: Seeing Through Alternative Fact & Fake News, invites readers to try out what Baba Dick Gregory calls the "magic... -
Inside Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $30.63'Black Mirror is hands down the most relevant program of our time, if for no other reason than how often it can make you wonder if we're all living in an episode of it.' - New York TimesWhat becomes... -
Sing, Nightingale by Marie Helene Poitras
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $12.34CBC BOOKS - CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a... -
Screening the Art World Temenuga Trifonova 9781041185826
RRP: $64.31SciFier: $59.54Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject - art in cinema, rather... -
Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend: A TOON Graphic Noah Van Sciver 9781662665226
RRP: $24.11SciFier: $16.64Did you know that a mainstay of American folk culture was in fact created as an advertising ploy?Few people realize that Paul Bunyan, the legendary lumberjack, and his blue ox are the product of... -
Magic Has No Borders by Samira Ahmed
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $16.01From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience.This fantasy and science fiction teen...