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L'Atalante by Marina Warner
SciFier: $22.52L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics'... -
Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $18.53Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
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Indigo Or Mapping The Waters Marina Warner 9780099154518 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $3.49Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction Marina Warner (Writer, historian, cultural critic, and novelist; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) 9780199532155
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.08From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell... -
Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781406383096
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.08The definitive collection of British and Irish folktales from master storyteller and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland.Rich and strange, these eerie and magical folktales from across Britain and Ireland... -
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 9780141439976
RRP: $11.11SciFier: $7.77'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is... -
Building Babel by Suniti Namjoshi
RRP: $20.78SciFier: $14.33Every retelling of a myth is a reworking of it. Every hearing or reading of a myth is a recreation of it. It is only when we engage with a myth that it resonates, becomes charged and recharged with... -
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $18.89An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy... -
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.01Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny... -
The Four Marys by Jean Rafferty
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.34Longisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize 2015 "Powerful stories." - Marina Warner. Obsession, longing, deceit and even murder feature in this quartet of provocative novellas, which gives a... -
Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by Neil Gaiman
RebellionRRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.20An enthralling collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings,... -
Realms of Imagination by Tanya Kirk
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $30.15'Fantasy, we know, from the oldest stories in the oldest languages, has always been with us.' - Neil Gaiman, 'Preface' Fantasy is an expansive genre, encompassing sprawling epics, ancient... -
Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World Peter McNeil 9780300217469
RRP: $52.13SciFier: $47.97An exploration of British male fashion of the late eighteenth century "A brilliant account of a controversial moment in men's self-fashioning."-Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, Museum at... -
The Fairest of Them All by Maria Tatar
RRP: $23.56SciFier: $19.67"With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting."-Gregory Maguire,... -
The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 9781509881963
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $10.97Regarded as a modern fairy tale, L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz is one of America's most cherished and enchanting children's stories. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of... -
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand Benedict Anderson 9780857424020
RRP: $18.07SciFier: $16.65In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a... -
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.43Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as... -
Tales of Wonder by Jack Zipes
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $36.20The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect... -
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger by Nathalie Morris (BFI, UK)
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $34.04Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and ... -
Dressing Up by Ulinka Rublack (Senior Lecturer in early modern European history at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St John's College)
SciFier: $61.15Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people s appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what... -
Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $22.80Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders - is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion,... -
The Fairies Return by Maria Tatar
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $23.99Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been... -
The Modern Fairies Clare Pollard 9780241672464
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.54'A novel with oodles of charm' The Times'Elegant, decadent, vulgar, clever, enchanting and dark' Sarah Perry, author of EnlightenmentVersailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis... -
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjornsen 9781517921040
RRP: $31.96SciFier: $27.05The definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture-now in paperback The extraordinary folktales collected by Peter... -
Zombies: A Cultural History Roger Luckhurst 9781780235288
SciFier: $42.60The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and primitive superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition Jacob Grimm 9780691160597
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $40.69When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition Jacob Grimm 9780691173221
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $22.31When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and...