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The Green Indian Problem by J.L. Willetts 9781913724528
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher's Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years - an ordinary boy with an... -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters by Salva Rubio 9780984157662
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £19.04In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! (R) Goes to the Movies, Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly studio-made. Now his student, Salva Rubio, applies Blake's principles to 50... -
Film Business by Lillian Ross 9798986446332
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46Introduction by Richard Brody. Lillian Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, and wrote on filmmakers regularly over the course of her extraordinary career. Beginning with... -
PosterSpy: An Alternative Movie Poster Collection by 9780764354755
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £26.86Way before the advent of social networks, the first, and sometimes only, visual contact you may have had with a movie was its poster. To return to this enlightened approach and escape the hard... -
Tomorrow I'll Be Kind by Jessica Hische 9781524787042
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.57Tomorrow I'll be everything I strive to be each day And even when it's difficult I'll work to find a way. Immerse yourself in the beautifully hand-lettered words of widsom, hope, and... -
George Clooney: An Actor Looking for a Role by Mark Browning 9780313396212
Booksplease Price: £53.55This book traces the evolution of George Clooney's successful career, from his humble start as a television heartthrob to his current position as one of the most powerful figures in film making today... -
Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson
Booksplease Price: £27.30Hal Ashby set the standard for subsequent independent filmmakers by crafting unique, thoughtful, and challenging films that continue to influence new generations of directors. Initially finding... -
Who Will U Be? by Jessica Hische
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.68It's the annual 'Find Yourself Field Trip' at Ms. Bracket's School of Little Letters, and 'u' couldn't be more excited. She can't wait to see all the ways letters are used in the world -- they're on... -
Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction by Donna Kornhaber
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both... -
American Homes by Ryan Ridge 9780472052585
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.84American Homes by Ryan Ridge is a satirical exploration of the modern American home and its symbolic role in culture, identity, and society. Blending humor, wit, and sharp social commentary, the book... -
Brave, Kind, and Grateful: A Daily Gratitude Journal by Jessica Hische
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.07Put bravery, kindness, and creativity into action in this gorgeous gratitude journal by New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jessica Hische!Following up Tomorrow I'll Be Brave and Tomorrow... -
Mirror Lake by Juneau Black
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A MURDER TO SOLVE. A REPORTER ON THE TRAIL.IS THIS A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY?Welcome, dear reader! You have happened upon the delightful village of Shady Hollow, a place where rabbits and raptors,... -
American Homes by Ryan Ridge
Booksplease Price: £43.41American Homes by Ryan Ridge is a satirical exploration of the modern American home and its symbolic role in culture, identity, and society. Blending humor, wit, and sharp social commentary, the book... -
American-Australian Cinema: Transnational Connections by Adrian Danks 9783319666754
Booksplease Price: £100.39This edited collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and... -
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron 9781787704244
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.81***A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*** "An intriguing, memorable book." The Times "Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined." Literary Hub "Terrifying, comic and... -
Good Movies as Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers Matt Stevens 9781797232195
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.32Imagine your favorite movies as vintage books! This clever collection features iconic films, cult classics, and box office hits brilliantly designed to look like original book covers-a delight for... -
US Independent Film After 1989: Possible Films by Claire Perkins
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This is a study of US independent films marginalised in and by the rise of 'indie' culture. In contemporary film and popular culture the terms 'independent' and 'indie' hold instant recognition and... -
Summers End: Welcome back to Shady Hollow in the all new fun cosy mystery set in your favourite village Juneau Black 9781399716123
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favourite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen.'Billed as Agatha Christie meets Beatrix Potter . . . Sometimes you just need an entertaining, escapist read... -
Chess: A Novel by 9780241305164
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 3: Volume 3 by John Berra 9781783206568
Booksplease Price: £48.86This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside... -
Solid Ivory by James Ivory
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so happy? Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life... -
Grandville by Bryan Talbot
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.51In Grandville, the first volume in the series, Talbot brings us a steampunk masterpiece. IIt tells the story of detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard as he stalks a gang of murderers through... -
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and Television by Marianne Kac-Vergne 9781350331655
Booksplease Price: £32.95This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film... -
Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film by Donna Kornhaber
Booksplease Price: £33.45In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats--an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering... -
Model City Pyongyang by Cristiano Bianchi
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.73Many 'model' cities, both imagined and physical, have existed throughout history; from the ideal cities of the Renaissance, Urbino, Pienza and Ferrara, to modernist utopias, such as Brasilia or... -
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy Peter C. Kunze 9780197675502
RRP: £127.50Booksplease Price: £118.44The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field-the study of humor and comedy in movies, television, streaming... -
Floating Hotel: a cosy and charming read to escape with Grace Curtis 9781529391688
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Smart, bold and so much fun . . . I'm officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club' AMIE KAUFMANThe Grand Budapest Hotel in space, Floating Hotel is a hopeful story of misfits, rebels and found... -
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe 9780008697860
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.71The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe-one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers-revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped... -
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women On and Off Screen in Film and Television by Marianne Kac-Vergne
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.65This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film... -
The Adventures of Team Pom: The Last Dodo by Isabel Roxas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It's the summer break in Shadyside, Queens, and Team Pom's investigation into the mysterious organization called C.A.O.S, and its sinister boss Steve, have hit a dead end. Seeking a bit of... -
Ontographies: A Media Philosophy of Immanence Lorenz Engell 9781804132463
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.98Ontographies proposes a radical shift, moving beyond the crisis of representation by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspective for understanding our media-saturated... -
The Uncool Cameron Crowe 9780008697853
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe-one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers-revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped... -
Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance by Peter C. Kunze 9781978827813
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it had become one of the most powerful entertainment... -
Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone by Matt Zoller
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.35Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's... -
Psychedelic Celluloid by Simon Matthews 9781843444572
Booksplease Price: £21.49The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and European production company descended on London to be... -
The Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz 9781419742835
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our... -
The Blue Grass Cook Book by Minnie C. Fox 9780813141121
Booksplease Price: £24.20Hal Ashby (1929--1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema. After moving to California from a Mormon household in Utah, he created... -
Spy Seal Volume 1: The Corten-Steel Phoenix by Rich Tommaso 9781534304796
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Journey into the thrilling world of international espionage as one of Britain's most covert MI-6 divisions,The Nest, recruits a brand-new secret agent to their team: SPY SEAL! Follow the newbie spy... -
Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals by Jared N. Champion 9781496835482
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory... -
The Cinema of Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur by Philippe Met
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of...