To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Günter Grass’ gloriously unforgettable novel, The Tin Drum, Breon Mitchell presents a new translation of this classic.

A charming novel, by one of The Netherlands’ rising stars, Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill is a timeless novel about love, loss and village life.

Catherine Millet’s second novel, Jealousy, is a lucid, astute and incredibly ac­curate analysis of human emotions.

Exploring the dichotomy between exterior and interior lives, Catch examines the notions of identity and vulnerability in a claustrophobic world.

Amir Nizar Zuabi’s new play explores what it means to live through a historical event, emphasising the importance of the personal over the political.

The new album from The Twilight Sad is shadowy and tumultuous and won’t disappoint fans of its predecessor. The lyrics are unsettling, dark and personal.

Laura Gibson’s first full-length UK album is immediately arresting. Her beautiful musings on love, life and death are simple layers of guitar picking and soft vocals.

Although us English-speakers are not accustomed to listening to words we can’t understand, Arnalds transcends that barrier through captivating lullabies.

This album finds Asobi Seksu’s core duo – vocalist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna offering a fresh take on songs spanning the band’s career with new acoustic arrangements.

Since their Drunken Trees EP was released back in February, Klara and Johanna Söderberg have gone from being relatively unknown Swedish teenagers to the darlings of this year’s festivals.

Often with a cinematic feel encompassing classic soul harmonies, brass horns and sultry vocals, Memoirs At the End of the World is a divine album.

A.A. Bondy has weathered several band line-ups and genres before finally settling into his bones with When the Devil’s Loose.

Musicians have taken their promotion out of the hands of big companies, attempting a new DIY approach to standing out from the crowd. Everything has changed, from the techniques to the content.

A mogul in the film world, Philip Ilson co-founded the Halloween Short Film Festival in 2003, which became the London Short Film Festival in 2008

In this two-part guide, the award winning, BAFTA nominated Brothers McLeod offer a series of practical hints and tips to help you start animating.

Departures considers the inescapable in a starkly honest portrayal of the ceremony of death, and its reaction among the living.

Two young boys find a girl naked and close to death in the woods. The only clue to the girl’s identity is a ticket she was clutching for admission to an Albert Einstein lecture.

Cold Earth tells the story of six graduate archaeologists who enlist to excavate the ruins of the Norse Greenlanders who mysteriously disappeared.

In an illuminating study, the often forgotten figure of Edward Carpenter is revealed as a precedent for modern sexual and social liberation.

Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a powerful and rewarding story of two sets of twins and their relationships – how can you be both the same and different?