This month we’ve chosen works that were all published or released in a specific year: 1925. And what a year. In fact the variety of works is quite a surprise.

Here’s what we’ll be looking at.

• The Great Gatsby (novel) – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Trial (novel) – Franz Kafka
• Mrs Dalloway (novel) – Virginia Woolf
• The Couterfeiters (novel) – André Gide
• Battleship Potemkin (movie) – Sergei Eisenstein
• Symphony No. 6 (music) – Carl Nielsen