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The Exorcist by Mark Kermode
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.83Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was... -
The Shawshank Redemption by Mark Kermode
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.48How did a low-key prison movie which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time? Mark Kermode traces the history of this unexpected... -
Silent Running by Mark Kermode
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A visually stunning and heartfelt riposte to the emotional sterility of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull's eco-themed Silent Running (1972) became one of the defining science-fiction... -
Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: How Film Music is Made by Mark Kermode 9781447230564
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' - Richard AyoadeHow can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air?How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers?And when... -
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred... -
The Shawshank Redemption Mark Kermode 9781839027222
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.85How did a low-key prison drama which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time? Mark Kermode traces the history of this... -
My Favourite Movies: From a century of films and the world's best directors by David Stratton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Wondering what to watch next? Discover a new movie or a new director among David Stratton's personal favourites!These are the movies Australia's best-loved film critic, David Stratton, has watched... -
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Wonderful - such a terrific read. Brilliantly captures the passion, commitment, searing self-knowledge and dizzy happiness that comes with loving music. An enchanting book' STEPHEN FRY***Following a... -
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode 9781847946034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.25In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode showed us the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, in The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex, he takes us into the belly of... -
Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics by Mark Kermode 9781447230533
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry'Entertainingly incendiary stuff' EmpireA hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is... -
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive by Mark Kermode
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as... -
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode 9781474608985
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric guitar... -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden... -
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped... -
Arts Reviews And How To Write Them: How to Write Them by Celia Brayfield 9781904048916
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82The most wanted, the most feared, the most hated, the most powerful job in journalism: being a reviewer means writing about something you love and getting paid for it. So for a lot of people it's the... -
Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog 9781784879785
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema's most infamous production, from the world's most infamously visionary director: Werner Herzog. In 1982, the visionary film director, Werner... -
Tick Tock: A Times Thriller of the Year Simon Mayo 9780857526618
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.61'A slice of scary, escapist fun' Observer'The twists and turns are never-ending' Daily Mail'An unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller' Radio Times'A phenomenal thriller,... -
Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie by James King 9781472123725
Booksplease Price: £24.71'Brilliant' Mail on SundayTake a trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS and 'Axel F'; of outsiders, lost boys and dead poets;... -
Tick Tock: A Times Thriller of the Year Simon Mayo 9781804991091
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'A slice of scary, escapist fun' Observer'The twists and turns are never-ending' Daily Mail'An unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller' Radio Times'A phenomenal thriller,... -
Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop by David Hepworth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?But what's fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. David Hepworth is interested in the human side... -
Entertainment Journalism: Making it your Career Ben Falk 9781138649385
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years' experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive... -
The Secret Life of the Movies by Simon Brew 9781788401272
Booksplease Price: £8.87Get ready to spot hundreds of things you've never seen before across a wide range of films, in this brand new book from the creator of Den Of Geek. From the small references and inspirations, through... -
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.35AVAILABLE NOW - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FATHER'S DAY'Delightful. A great, fun read.' DAVID JASON'Mel Brooks is the king of comedy.' DAVID BADDIEL'Riotous' DAILY MAIL'A jaunty romp across Brooks's... -
Anno Dracula Signed 30th Anniversary Edition by Kim Newman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.35It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. His polluted bloodline spreads through London as its citizens... -
Louder & Funnier by P. G. Wodehouse 9781841591964
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £8.99In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring brilliance as a comic writer of non-fiction. But the move out of... -
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright Emma Smith 9780241361634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the... -
'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters) by David Thomson 9780141020754
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.71David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema. This is veteran film writer David Thomson's... -
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection Various 9781409177555
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us.Through moving personal letters, hilarious anecdotes, brilliant new fiction, and... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.77SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling... -
The Descent by James Marriott
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.41The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries to return verve and intensity to the genre. Unlike its peers... -
Itchcraft by Simon Mayo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.43Exploding euros and exciting elements - join Itch, Jack and Chloe on their latest adventure.Itchingham Lofte, teenage element hunter and unlikely hero, has had anough excitement to last him a... -
Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world Ellen E. Jones 9780571369447
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79'A brilliantly readable and insightful book.' Mark Kermode, Observer'Deftly, delightfully, yet inexorably, Ellen E Jones shows us exactly what's wrong with the world as we usually see it on screen. ... -
Witchfinder General by Ian Cooper
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £16.39Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes... -
Anno Dracula - 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem by Kim Newman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.63From Kim Newman comes this new story set in his unique world of vampires and Dracula, Anno Dracula. On the verge of Dracula's 10th anniversary of rule, forces sworn to crush his iron grip rule are... -
Blame by Simon Mayo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed?That's the situation in which Ant finds herself - together with her little brother Mattie and their... -
Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life: Classical Music to Take You Through the Day Scala Radio 9780857839671
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music. With pieces ranging from Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark... -
Ill Effects: The Media Violence Debate by Martin Barker 9780415225137
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The influence of the media remains a contentious issue. Every time a particularly high-profile crime of violence is committed, there are those who blame the effects of the media. The familiar... -
Knife Edge by Simon Mayo
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." LEE CHILDYou never know where danger may come from... 6.45am. A sweltering... -
Itch Rocks by Simon Mayo
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51After almost poisoning his whole class with arsenic gas, going on the run from a psychotic science teacher and nearly dying of radiation poisoning, life is getting back to normal for Itchingham Lofte... -
The Grab List Simon Mayo 9781787636798
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Your house is on fire. What do you save?You have seconds to decide.If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?When the West End Gallery in London's fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set...