It’s my last monthly cover round-up of the year! Watch out for my review of 2017 next month…
After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry; design by Pete Dyer (Serpents Tail / November 2017)
Basket of Deplorables by Tom Rachman; design by Josh Durham, Design by Committee (Text / September 2017)
Bonfire by Krysten Ritter; design by Will Staehle (Crown Archetype / November 2017)
Don’t Save Anything by Jame Salter; design by Zoe Norvell (Counterpoint / November 2017)
Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn; design by Julia Connolly; illustration Peter Strain (Hogarth / October 2017)
The Giving Light by Gavin Corbett; design by Niall McCormack (Cló Hi Tone / November 2017)
Niall also designs the excellent covers for Gorse journal. The latest issue, Gorse #9, is out this month:
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck; design by Rodrigo Corral (New Directions / September 2017)
Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / May 2017)
How Will I Know You? by Jessic Treadway; design by Catherine Casalino; illustration by Henrietta Harris (Grand Central Publishing / August 2017)
The cover of How Will I Know You? reminded me of Lynn Buckley’s 2016 cover design for Sex Object by Jessica Valenti…
And I’m starting to think that faceless women might be a thing…
Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks; design Meg Reid; illustration by Jody Edwards (Hub City Press / September 2017)
The Parcel by Anosh Irani; design by Allison Colpoys (Scribe / September 2017)
The Poems of Dylan Thomas; design by Jamie Keenan (New Directions / November 2017)
Release by Patrick Ness; design by Erin Fitzsimmons; photograph by Andrew Yuzko (Harper Teen / September 2017)
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury / November 2017)
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib; design Two Dollar Radio (Two Dollar Radio / November 2017)
Time of Gratitude by Gennady Aygi; design by Eileen Baumgartner (New Directions / December 2017)
Toi Aussi Mon Fils by Jonathan Pedneault; design by David Drummond (Les Éditions XYZ / November 2017)
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein; design by W. H. Chong (Text / October 2017)
Ultraluminous by Katherine Faw; design by Rodrigo Corral; lettering June Park (FSG / December 2017)
Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / October 2017)
The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / November 2017)
Speaking of Paul Sahre, his “graphic memoir” Two Dimensional Man was publishing by Abrams in September:
AND… speaking of László Krasznahorkai (as I know you all were), the cover of the UK edition of The World Goes On was designed by Harry Haysom:
It’s part of a series of abstract covers by Haysom for the Profile Books editions of Krasznahorkai: