Congratulations to all the winners at last night’s Academy of British Cover Design Awards!
Children’s
Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton; design by Chris Haughton (Walker Books / March 2014)
Young Adult
Spiders by Tom Hoyle; design by Rachel Vale; illustration by Sam Hadley (PanMacmillan / November 2014)
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Wolves by Simon Ings; design by Nick May; illustration by Jeffery Alan Love (Gollancz / January 2014)
Mass Market
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway; design Glenn O’Neill (William Heinemann / May 2014 )
Literary Fiction
Badmouth by Alan Wall; design by Jamie Keenan (Harbour Books / January 2014)
Crime / Thriller
The Black Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black; design by Jonathan Pelham (Mantle / February 2014)
Non-Fiction
Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi; design by by Caz Hildebrand and Sakiko Kobayashi / Here Design (Ebury Press / September 2014)
Series Design
Gollancz Simon Ings; design by Nick May; illustration by Jeffery Alan Love
(Above: City of Iron Fish. Gollancz / April 2014 )
Classics / Reissue
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; design by Jamie Keenan (W. W. Norton / February 2014)
Women’s Fiction (Joint Winners)
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews; design by Helen Crawford-White / Studio Helen (Faber & Faber / June 2014)
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent; design by James Annal ( Picador / March 2014 )
Well done Jon Gray and Jamie Keenan for organizing the awards. All the shortlisted covers — selected by judges Mark Ecob, Yeti Lambregts, David Mann, Richard Ogle, Donna Payne, Rafi Romaya, Henry Steadman, Jim Stoddart, Rachel Vale, and Claire Ward — can be found on the ABCD website.