Here are September’s cover selections with a few extra covers from earlier in the year, just for good measure…
The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by David Ferry; design by Matt Avery (University of Chicago Press / September 2017)
The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil; design by Nick Misani (Grove Press / September 2017)
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy by Adrian Shirk; design by Jarrod Taylor (Counterpoint / September 2017)
The Beast by Alexander Starritt; design by Gray318 (Head of Zeus / September 2017)
A Book of Untruths by Miranda Doyle; design by Donna Payne (Faber & Faber / June 2017)
I really must do a post on crossings out on covers….
Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down by Allan Jones; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / August 2017)
The Change Room by Karen Connelly; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Random House Canada / April 2017)
Curry by Naben Ruthnum; illustration by Chloe Cushman; series design Ingrid Paulson (Coach House Books / August 2017)
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackeman; design by Kelly Blair (Knopf / January 2017)
Democracy and Its Crisis by A.C. Grayling design James Paul Jones (Oneworld / September 2017)
Do Not Bring Him Water by Caitlin Scarano; design by Zoe Norvell (Write Bloody / September 2017)
The Dying Detective by Leif GW Persson; design by Oliver Munday (Pantheon / May 2017)
English Uprising by Paul Stocker; design by Jamie Keenan (Melville House / September 2017)
Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum; design by Stuart Wilson; illustration Andrew Davidson (Picador / August 2017)
The Experiment by Eric Lee; design by David A. Gee (Zed Books / September 2017)
I Am Not A Brain by Markus Gabriel; design by David A. Gee (Polity Press / September 2017)
The Last London by Iain Sinclair; design by James Paul Jones (Oneworld / September 2017)
Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta; design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner / August 2017)
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent; design by Jo Walker (Fourth Estate / August 2017)
The cover of the US edition, published by Riverhead, was designed by Jaya Miceli:
New People by Danzy Senna; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / August 2017)
The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton; design by Matt Dorfman (Counterpoint / August 2017)
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher; design by Jack Smyth (Simon & Schuster / September 2017)
Ruth and Martin’s Album Club by Martin Fitzgerald; design by Dan Mogford (Unbound / September 2017)
Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez; design Oliver McPartlin; photograph Matthew Henry (Arsenal Pulp Press / May 2017)
The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard; design Marina Drukman (Melville House / August 2017)
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann; design by Oliver Munday (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / August 2017)
We All Love the Beautiful Girls by Joanne Proulx; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Viking / August 2017)
You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann; design by Peter Mendelsund (Pantheon / June 2017)