Free B Fest

In celebration of Victoria Film Festival's Free B Fest - books, movies, and other treats to add to your experience in the park.


Updated August 8, 2025
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Collected stories
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
Includes the stories "Poison" and "The Ratcatcher," now short films from Wes Anderson on Netflix The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller. * "An ingenious...
Elvis and the Colonel : an insider's look at the most legendary partnership in show business
McDonald, Greg
Paper Book
A fresh biography of legendary entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, with a contrarian and corrective point of view. Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary...
Hail to the chin : further confessions of a B movie actor
Campbell, Bruce
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller Introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John Hodgman One of my dad's favorite jokes about getting older was: "I went out for coffee when I was twenty-one and when I got back...
Matilda
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects...
Monster, she wrote : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction
Kröger, Lisa
Paper Book
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales in horror, Gothic fiction, and speculative literature, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. From Mary Shelley's...
Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you : the shadow cinema of the American '70s
Taylor, Charles
Paper Book
"Movie criticism's Dostoyevsky . . . Taylor reveals a national identity forged from the innocence we claim to have lost but never had in the first place." --Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The...
Teller of the unexpected : the life of Roald Dahl : an unofficial biography
Dennison, Matthew
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest...

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