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Emeric Pressburger: Life and Death of a Screenwriter by Kevin Macdonald
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.55A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in... -
Secrets of Conjuring and Magic by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
RRP: £34.99SciFier: £24.22Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical expose of Victorian... -
High-Rise J. G. Ballard 9780586044568
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower... -
The Crystal World J. G. Ballard 9780586024195
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58From J. G. Ballard, author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal. Through a 'leaking' of time, the West... -
Thieves Fall Out Gore Vidal 9781783292493
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45An American smuggler in Egypt finds himself at the mercy of killers, femme fatales, and an escalating revolution-a lost pulp crime novel from one of the legends of the genre Lost for more than 60... -
Pedro Almodovar by Marvin D'Lugo
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodovar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge... -
XX by Angela Chadwick
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019FEATURED ON THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018'One of the feminist novels of 2018' Stylist'Handmaid's Tale-shaped hole in your life? Read XX' The Times'A pacy... -
Imago Dei by Jaroslav Pelikan
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £40.69In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son,... -
Rig by Jon Wallace
GollanczRRP: £9.99SciFier: £3.04A fast-moving, filmic and violent SF thriller, perfect for fans of Jack Campbell. A meeting of The Road and Rogue Trooper.'My nanotech is dead. By definition I am no longer Ficial. On the other hand... -
Charlie Chaplin by John W. Fawell
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £83.14Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the... -
Introducing Melanie Klein by R. D. Hinshelwood
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £5.83INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature... -
The A List by Jay Carr
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for... -
Little Book of Alexander McQueen: The story of the iconic brand Karen Homer 9781847961006
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83"Give me time and I'll give you a revolution" - Alexander McQueenEver since its creation in 1992, the House of Alexander McQueen has been synonymous with drama, risk-taking and cutting-edge... -
Lindsay Anderson Revisited by Erik Hedling
SciFier: £92.99This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films like This Sporting Life (1963) and If... -
Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture Meaghan Elizabeth Morris 9780253211880
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12What good is history to cultural studies? Meaghan Morris looks at struggles over "history" in social settings created by capitalism: in tourist landscapes and in television time. The materials of her... -
A Moon for the Misbegotten on the American Stage by Laura Shea
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21A Moon for the Misbegotten is one of Eugene O'Neill's most frequently revived works, and major American revivals of the play have been instrumental in securing its esteemed position in theater... -
The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by Uma McCormack
Titan BooksRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.45The iconic Star Trek character's lifestory appears for the first time in his own words; perfect for fans of the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Words.One of Starfleet's finest officers and the... -
A Fairytale for Everyone Boldizsar M Nagy 9780008708306
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.19The inclusive LGBTQ+ fairytale collection that has grabbed headlines across the world! Powerful princesses that slay giants,and beautiful princes that find true love.Heroes come in all... -
Basquiat Marc Mayer 9781858945194
RRP: £18.95SciFier: £14.79Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Market Garden by Warlord Games
Osprey GamesRRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.92Market Garden was a bold plan, designed to capture the Rhine crossings along the Dutch-German border and establish a foothold for an advance into Germany. A massive combined arms operation involving... -
The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever Nick Hall 9780813587202
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £24.12From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow's Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the... -
Street Art by Simon Armstrong
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its... -
The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £22.99Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977),movie-maker, bon vivant, and passionate intellectual,was the key figure of Italian neo-realism, the godfather of the French New Wave, and a television pioneer the maker... -
The Swinging Detective by Henry McDonald
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.39Martin Peters finds himself in Berlin. Once a British spy involved in a controversial loyalist shooting in Belfast, he spent time in Berlin infiltrating the Punk scene just before the Wall came down... -
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride
RRP: £52.50SciFier: £33.46John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a... -
Nazi Occultism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christian Theology in the Video Game Series Wolfenstein by Frank G. Bosman
SciFier: £87.99The critically acclaimed if controversial game series Wolfenstein is famous for its inclusion of historical objects and figures from the realm of Nazi Occultism, including the Swastika, the Spear of... -
The Oliver Stone Experience Matt Zoller Seitz 9781419717901
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.26Oliver Stone is one of the grand masters of American cinema. A multiple Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden), he... -
The Little Guide to Schiaparelli OH 9781035433575
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95The Schiaparelli brand is nothing short of iconic. The Shocking Pink signature says it all: flamboyant yet simple, luxurious but humorous, and always incredibly stylish.The brand blurs the lines... -
The Company: the chilling gothic thriller J.M. Varese 9781399802635
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.48'[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of... -
The Company: the chilling gothic thriller J.M. Varese 9781399802659
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of... -
The Invisible Man H. G. Wells 9780141439983
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.94With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy... -
The Sleeper Awakes H. G. Wells 9780141441061
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.94A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made... -
Tarantino by Dan Jolin
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.95Quentin Tarantino is one of the most iconic and best loved movie directors of the last two decades. Whether he's shooting up the Deep South, slicing through the Japanese underworld, blasting... -
Sam Peckinpah by Kevin J. Hayes
RRP: £41.95SciFier: £33.75Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of his second feature-length film, the award-winning Ride the... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £4.28Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince,... -
JUDGES Volume One: The Avalanche, Lone Wolf & When the Light Lay Still Michael Carroll 9781781086391
RebellionSciFier: £9.09United States of America, 2033 A.D.In a time of widespread poverty, inequality and political unrest, Special Prosecutor Eustace Fargo's controversial new justice laws have come into effect.Protests... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 9780198829195
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.67'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions... -
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.11The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer... -
The New Extremism in Cinema by Tanya Horeck
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £25.21This is an exploration into the darkest side of cinema. Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have... -
Hollywood and After by Jerzy Toeplitz
SciFier: £117.34First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought...