2012: Books, music, films
7th January - A Song Of Ice And Fire: A Game Of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
22nd February - Terra Incognita: Travels In Antarctica, Sara Wheeler [Non-fiction]
26th February - Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
29th February - Crete: The Battle And Resistance, Anthony Beevor [Non-fiction]
7th March - Out Of Steppe, Daniel Metcalfe[Non-fiction]
22nd March - A Clash Of Kings, George R. R. Martin
23rd March - 14th May
A Storm Of Swords, George R. R. Martin
A Feast For Crows, George R. R. Martin
A Dance With Dragons, George R. R. Martin
Mao's Great Famine, Frank Dikotter
May - 15th October
The Opium War, Julia Lovell [Non-fiction]
Among The Russians, Colin Thubron [Non-fiction]
In Siberia, Colin Thubron [Non-fiction]
Dreaming In Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love and Language, Deborah Fallows [Non-fiction]
China In Ten Words, Yu Hua [Non-fiction]
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, Adrian Johns [Non-fiction]
The Eagle Of The Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War , Stephen R. Platt [Non-fiction]
1st January - 14th February
Past, Present, Future, Tiki Taane
My Head Is An Animal, Of Monsters And Men
Enough Thunder EP, James Blake
Household Goods EP, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Memories Of An Old Friend, Angus And Julia Stone
The Rip Tide, Beirut
Oh Land, Oh Land
Welcome To Condale, Summer Camp
Elementary Particles, Bluetech
Bibliotec, Phontaine
15th February - 27th March
Given To The Wild, The Maccabees
Garden EP, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Household Goods EP, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Trouble EP, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Reign Of Terror, Sleigh Bells
Warriors EP, The Good Natured
Be My Animal EP, The Good Natured
Your Body Is A Machine EP, The Good Natured
Skeleton EP, The Good Natured
28th March - 14th May
Give You The Ghost, Poliça
Master Of My Make-Believe, Santigold
Anxiety, Ladyhawke
La Radiolina, Manu Chao
May - 15th October
Trouble, Totally Extinct Enormous Dinosaurs
Electric Hawaii, Opossom
Buffalo, The Phoenix Foundation
Horsepower, The Phoenix Foundation
Pegasus, The Phoenix Foundation
Synthetica, Metric
Babel, Mumford & Sons
Fragant World, Yeasayer
The 2nd Law, Muse
9th January - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
18th January - Sea Wall [filmed version of Simon Stephen's play]
11th February - Rocknrolla
20th March - We Need To Talk About Kevin
27th March - My Week With Marilyn
17th April - The Artist
6th May - The Avengers
4th - 7th August
The Hollow Crown, a BBC adaptation of the Henry quartet of Shakespeare's history plays
Richard II
Henry IV Part I
Henry IV Part II
Henry V
11th August - Julius Caesar [BBC film of the 2012 RSC version]
14th October - The Hunger Games