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Pushkin Vertigo Crime Series Designed by Jamie Keenan

Vertigo Keenan

At the Creative Review blog, Jamie Keenan talks about his cover designs for Pushkin Press‘s new crime fiction imprint Pushkin Vertigo:

“From the beginning I wanted to come up with something that looked alien, as though someone had brought it back from a holiday in a country you’d never heard of”

They make for a stunning set.

Jamie also created that rather nice “PV” logo for the imprint. Nicely done Mr. Keenan.

I Was Jack Mortimer Keenan

Master of the Day of Judgment Keenan

She Who Was No More Keenan

The Disappearance of Signora Giulia Keenan

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders Keenan

Vertigo, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, The Disappearance of Signora Giulia and Master of the Day of Judgment will be published by Pushkin Vertigo on next month; two more titles, I Was Jack Mortimer and She Who Was No More, will be published in November.

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Book Covers of Note April 2015

Never mind that still feels like some crazy never-ending winter in Toronto, it’s (allegedly) April so here are a few new and recent covers that have caught my eye in the past month…

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American Warlord by Johnny Dwyer; design by Oliver Munday (Knopf / April 2015)

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Boring Girls by Sara Taylor; design by David A. Gee (ECW  / April 2015)

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City Beasts by Mark Kurlansky; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2015)

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Dismantling by Brian DeLeeuw; design by Zoe Norvell (Plume / April 2015)

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Every Living One by Nathan Haukes; design by Alban Fischer (Horse Less Press / March 2015)

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The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord; design by Charles Brock (Del Rey / January 2015)

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The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough; design by Nina Goffi; illustration by Christopher Silas Neal (Scholastic / April 2015)

(You know who could do an amazing Harper Lee cover? Christopher Silas Neal, that’s who!)

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Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum; design by Gabrielle Bordwin (Random House / March 2015)

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Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; design by Julia Connolly;  illustration Petra Börner (Vintage / April 2015)

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How to Run a Government by Michael Barber; design by Barnbrook (Allen Lane / March 2015)

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Love and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong; design by Matt Broughton (Jonathan Cape / April 2015)

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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins; design by Thomas Ng; photograph Peter Kupfer (Spiegel & Grau / March 2015)

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The Musical Brain by César Aira; design by Rodrigo Corral (New Directions / March 2015)

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Odd Man Out by F. L. Green; design by M. S. Corley (Valancourt Books / March 2015)

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On the Way by Cyn Vargas; design by Alban Fischer (Curbside Splendor / April 2015)

(I also like Alban Fischer’s cover for Does Not Love by James Tadd Adcox, published by Curbside Splendor in 2014, a lot)

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Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville; design by Sian Wilson (Abacus / April 2015)

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The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre; design by Anna Booth; photography by Jon Barkat and Gary Spector (Feiwel & Friends / April 2015)

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The Road to Character by David Brooks; design by Jim Stoddart (Allen Lane / April 2015)

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The Seven Madmen
by Roberto Arlt; design by Steve Panton; series design Peter Dyer (Serpent’s Tail / February 2015)

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The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey; design by Greg Mollica; cover art by Matthew Cusick (W. W. Norton / February 2015)

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The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / March 2015)

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Syrian Notebooks by Jonathan Littell; design by David A. Gee; photograph by Mani (Verso / March 2015)

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Tout Peut Changer by Naomi Klein; design by Nouvelle Administration (Lux Éditeur / March 2015)

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Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / April 2015)

(Another great 2014 cover I missed — but saw in a bookstore recently — is Janet’s design for Hiding in Plain Sight by Nuruddin Farah)

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Whispering Shadows by Jan-Philipp Sendker; design by Gray318 (Atria / April 2015)

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The Woman Who Read Too Much by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; design by Anne Jordan (Stanford University Press / April 2015)

(I like this unused unused comp very much too)

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Worthy by Denice Turner; design by Kimberly Glyder (University of Nevada Press / April 2015)

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