A box set version will include the album on CD and vinyl, with a bonus CD featuring six extra tracks, a DVD with an exclusive short film directed by Henrik Hansen, and an interview with the guitarist - plus a numbered art print and six photographic prints.

With the follow-up to 2012's Privateering, Knopfler continues to see himself as a songwriter first, ahead of his skills as a guitarist and a performer. He says: "My position as a songwriter is just to try to make a good recording of a good song. And then the song walks out the door and goes off to have a life of its own.