A bit of a bumper post this month with a ton great covers, lots of old friends, a couple of designers that are new to me, and maybe an early contender (or two) for the ‘best of the year’ list.
As You Were by David Tromblay; design by Matthew Revert (Akashic / February 2021)
Benjamin’s Crossing by Jay Parini; design by Perry De La Vega (Anchor / February 2021)
Britain Alone by Philip Stevens; design by Johnny Pelham (Faber & Faber / January 2021)
Cigarette Nation by Daniel J. Robinson; design by David Drummond (McGill Queens University Press / February 2021)
I haven’t posted enough of David’s covers lately. They are always fun. I was struggling to think what this one reminded me of. I’m wondering if it’s maybe Raymond Hawkey’s black and white cover designs for Len Deighton? Or something from Pelican / Penguin in the 1970s?
Come On Up by Jordi Nopca; design by Roman Muradov (Bellevue Literary Press / February 2021)
Comic Timing by Holly Pester; design by David Pearson (Granta / February 2021)
The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund; design by Alex Merto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / February 2021)
Gerta by Kateřina Tučková; design by Kimberly Glyder (Amazon Crossing / February 2021)
A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel; design by Henry Sene Yee (Tordotcom / February 2021)
The cover of the UK edition publishing early next month was designed by Jess Hart.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones; design by Lucy Kim (Little Brown and Co. / February 2021)
Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander; design by Jack Smyth (Picador / February 2021)
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood; design Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead Books / February 2021)
The cover of the UK edition, published this month by Bloomsbury, was designed by Greg Heinimann.
Rachel Willey’s design for Patricia Lockwood’s memoir Priestdaddy is still one of my favourite covers of recent years (hard to believe it is from 2017!).
O by Steven Carroll; design by Gray318 (HarperCollins Australia / February 2021)
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell; design by Na Kim (MCD / February 2021)
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson; design by Gray318; photographs by Campbell Addy and Regan Cameron (Viking / February 2021)
Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro; design by Gabriele Wilson (Two Lines Press / February 2021)
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott; design by Na Kim; art by Kate MccGwire (FSG Originals / February 2021)
The Removed by Brandon Hobson; design by Elizabeth Yaffe (Ecco / February 2021)
The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniz Iczkovits; design by Janet Hansen; illustration by The High Road (Schocken Books / February 2021)
What would you call this background colour? Light brown? Dark beige? Anyway, it seems to be a thing. We could probably include As You Were cover here too, although it doesn’t have the red-orange accent colour.
The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec; design by Adam Auerbach (Ace Books / February 2021)
Your Story, My Story by Connie Palmen; design by Kimberly Glyder (Amazon Crossing / January 2021)