Here are this month’s book covers of note. Better late than never I suppose! (And so much for that New Year’s Resolution to better at blogging in 2019!). I’ll be starting on February’s post next week…
Cusp by Josephine Wilson; design by Alissa Dinallo (UWA Publishing / August 2018)
Starting my first 2019 covers post with a book from 2018 is not ideal, is it? Ah well… Take a look at some of the rejected covers on Alissa’s Instagram.
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker; design by Anna Kochman (Random House / January 2019)
Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers; design by Tree Abraham (Bloomsbury / January 2019)
Joy Enough by Sarah McColl; design by Catherine Casalino (Liveright / January 2019)
Maid by Stephanie Land; design by Amanda Kain (Hachette / January 2019)
You guys are weird…
The cover of the UK edition of Maid, published by Trapeze, also features rubber gloves FWIW. Sadly I don’t know who designed it.
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh; design by Ben Denzer (Penguin / January 2019)
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin; design by Stephen Brayda (Riverhead / January 2019)
No! by Charles Nemeth; design by James Paul Jones (Atlantic Books / January 2019)
Not Working by Josh Cohen; design by Matthew Young (Granta / January 2019)
I saw this in a bookstore on a recent visit to the UK. It stood out in a display of new nonfiction. I think it was the doodle-like looseness of the approach that initially caught my eye, but I also like that it feels like a parody of the contemporary nonfiction cover template.
Old Newgate Road by Keith Scribner; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / January 2019)
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma; design by Gray318 (Little, Brown & Company / January 2019)
Jon also designed the cover of Chigozie Obioma’s previous novel The Fishermen:
The cover of the UK edition of An Orchestra of Minorities, published by Little, Brown, was designed by Nico Taylor.
Also in the UK, Pushkin Press have a new edition of The Fishermen with a cover by Anna Morrison:
Salt On Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie; design by Gray318 (Canongate / January 2019)
Savage Frontier by Matthew Carr; design by Dan Mogford (Hurst / November 2018)
The Soprano Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall; design by Mike McQuade (Abrams / January 2019)
To the River by Don Gillmor; design by Five Seventeen (Random House Canada / December 2018)
The Wall by John Lanchester; design by Alex Kirby (Faber & Faber / January 2019)
The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander; design by Kelly Blair (Knopf / January 2019)
