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Creation by Gore Vidal
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of... -
Hollywood by Gore Vidal
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's... -
1876 by Gore Vidal
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this... -
Julian by Gore Vidal
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £8.70Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a... -
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study... -
The Smithsonian Institution Gore Vidal 9780349110721
SciFier: £18.24Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is... -
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... -
Thieves Fall Out Gore Vidal 9781781167922
Titan BooksRRP: £16.99SciFier: £8.72Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest and most controversial writers. The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two... -
Myra Breckinridge And Myron Gore Vidal 9780349103655
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's... -
Empire: Number 4 in series Gore Vidal 9780349105284
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in excess wealth, rather thought it might... -
Hollywood: Number 5 in series Gore Vidal 9780349105260 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £1.06Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's... -
Empire: Number 4 in series Gore Vidal 9780349105284 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £1.07Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in excess wealth, rather thought it might... -
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.42Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an... -
Caligula: The Official Story of the Film Thomas Negovan 9781835413869
Titan BooksRRP: £39.99SciFier: £28.99The official retrospective for controversial erotic historical drama Caligula, written by Gore Vidal and directed by Tinto Brass.Tracing Caligula's difficult production and the various cuts released,... -
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life Marjorie Garber 9780415926614
SciFier: £56.59"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."-Gore VidalAbout the... -
Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday Italo Calvino 9780141190129
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious... -
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity Robert J. Corber 9780822319641
SciFier: £22.56Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity Robert J. Corber 9780822319566 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £29.97Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert... -
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 9781913724078
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.59Nightmare Abbey is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1818, widely considered to be Peacock's most enduringly popular work. The narrative centres on Christopher Glowry, a miserly... -
Orson Welles by Mark W. Estrin
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46This book brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or... -
Full Service by Lionel Friedberg
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires... -
The Story of the Amulet Edith Nesbit 9781513269757
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.99The Story of the Amulet(1906) is a children's fantasy novel by English writer Edith Nesbit. The final book in Nesbit's beloved Psammead Trilogy-which also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The... -
The Story of the Amulet Edith Nesbit 9781513219738
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.74The Story of the Amulet(1906) is a children's fantasy novel by English writer Edith Nesbit. The final book in Nesbit's beloved Psammead Trilogy-which also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The... -
Vanishing Streets by J. M. Tyree
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £11.07Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and idiosyncratic, obsessive and wry, it offers an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries, retracing... -
The Making of The Wizard of Oz Aljean Harmetz 9781613748329
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.80Released in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz, this book is the definitive story of how one of America's most beloved movies was made and a marvelous,...