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Breaking New Ground

A look back at one of Britain’s most successful production companies, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Mark Herbert tells us more about what it takes to move ahead in the industry.

Undefeated

The rules and culture of American football itself might be an alien concept to most of the UK’s population, but raw passion and determination translates beyond sport.

Sieff Fashion

This collection of Jeanloup Sieff’s finest fashion shots is a stunning book of unique moments from one of the greatest fashion photographers of the 20th century.

Steve Adey

The Tower of Silence fills the airwaves with a variety of instruments and vocal expression. Recorded in a 19th century church in Edinburgh, the record is song after song of emotional intensity.

The Giants (Les Géants)

Lanners’ portrait of dreamy adolescence contains remarkable performances from the three juvenile leads as they embark on a journey into quasi-Dickensian drama.

Searching For Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man follows the search for the mysterious musician Rodriguez, who was briefly hailed as the finest recording artist of his generation, only to disappear into obscurity.

Lomo Life: The Future is Analogue

These two books record surprising moments that enhance our view of life, and reinstate film photography as anything but a dying art form.

Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs

In 1985, photojournalist McCurry gave National Geographic its most renowned cover with his Afghan Girl portrait. Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs offers a selection of works tracing his path across three continents.

Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz follows Margot as she agonises over leaving a secure life with a dependable husband for the excitement of an illicit liaison.

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years

Featuring conversations with the likes of Alex Katz, Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel, the book collects both the words and the works of the artists that followed Warhol.

Sonic Youth

In this newly released recording of a 1985 Sonic Youth gig, the haunting vibrancy is more than audible. It’s easy to hear this and lose your mind to the dingy images of the Chicago music venue.

Singing Adams

The follow-up to his acclaimed album, Everybody Friends Now, Singing Adams’ new release, Moves, does not disappoint.

Naytronix

Catchy, chilled out and, some may even say, cerebral. There’s even a summery vibe, but don’t let that put you off; instead let it cast its glow over your winter.

Midnight To The Boom: Painting in India After Independence

This book examines the revolutionary art movement that grew in India between its declaration of independence in 1947 and the economic boom of the 1990s.

In Your Hands (Contre Toi)

Alone in a cell-like room, plagued and tormented by her captor, Yann, surgeon Anna is forced to confront the personal and professional facets of her personality.

Super Best Friends Club

Esoteric is the word of the day as the wonderfully named Super Best Friends Club unleashes its epic journey of a debut LP.

Planas

Certain tracks, such as Cry Wolf, could form a fitting soundtrack to a grand and intense piece of performance art.

Art in Oceania: A New History

Challenging the notion that Oceanic art consists essentially of masks and sculptures, this book exposes how the peoples of Oceania created an incredible range of art forms and great art traditions.

A Simple Life

In A Simple Life, the aloof movie producer Roger treats his live-in servant Ah Tao with dismissiveness, until illness upsets the balance of their shared existence.

Nicolas Righetti: Yes To A Rosy Future

Yes To A Rosy Future is a collection of unsettling photographs that cast new light on the conflict in Syria. Nicolas Righetti arrived in Damascus when preparations for the Syrian election were under way.