I hope you’re safe and well wherever you are. What do we have this month? A few British covers for a change, a bit of Canadian content, a couple of indie presses, and even something from a university press, not to mention covers from all the usual suspects. Enjoy!
Anam by André Dao; design by Tiana Dunlop (Pan Macmillan / August 2023)
The Apartment by Ana Menéndez; design by Jaya Miceli (Counterpoint / June 2023)
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray; design by Na Kim (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / August 2023)
Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor; design by Michel Vrana; photograph by Joe Cohen (Biblioasis / August 2023)
Bridge by Lauren Beukes; design by Lauren Wakefield (Penguin / August 2023)
Lauren also designed the cover of Afterland by Lauren Beukes which was on my list of notable covers back in 2020.
I like the cover of the US edition of Bridge published by Mulholland Books too. Let me know if you know who designed it and I’ll add in the credit! It was designed by Kirin Diemont.
Caret by Adam Mars-Jones; design by Jonathan Pelham (Faber / August 2023)
Jonny also re-designed the previous books in this series to match. They’re a lovely set that somehow feel very British, and very Faber. They sort of remind me of postwar pub signs and vintage lettering on canal barges. Anyway, I like them a lot.
A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare; design by Matt Broughton (Vintage / August 2023)
(If anyone at PRH in the UK would like to send me a higher quality image, I’d be happy to replace the not quite sharp one above)
The cover of the US edition of A Dictator Calls, available from Counterpoint next month, was designed by Farjana Yasmin.
Everything / Nothing / Someone by Alice Carriere; design by Strick and WIlliams (Spiegel & Grau / August 2023)
Hangman by Maya Binyam; design by Alex Merto; art by Belkis Ayón (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / August 2023)
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim; design by Cassie Gonzales (Hogarth / August 2023)
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / August 2023)
I love the colour palette of this one. The lettering is fun too.
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue; design by Lucy Kim (Little Brown and Company / August 2023)
I wonder if there is a post in book covers with dots? Maybe even one of dots in circle pattern? that might be a bit niche…
Lost Believers by Irina Zhorov; design by Emily Mahon (Scribner / August 2023)
Another nice palette / lettering combo.
Manor on the Viridian Sea by Eleanor P. Sam; design by Dorian Danielsen (Isalea Publishing / August 2023)
My Name is Iris by Brando Skyhorse; design by Richard Ljoenes (Avid Reader Press / August 2023)
Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blache; design by Dan Mogford; lettering by Martin Naumann (Vintage / August 2023)
Sublunar by Harald Voetmann; design by Jamie Keenan (New Directions / August 2023)
Hilarious,
Trialectic by Peter A. Alces; design by Jenny Volvovski (University of Chicago Press / August 2023)