Hey, sorry, just sliding in under the wire with another slightly rushed post this month. I hope everyone is safe and well (all things considered). Let’s just get on with it shall we?
Autocorrect by Etgar Keret; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / May 2025)
The Bombshell by Darrow Farr; design by Colin Webber (Pamela Dorman Books / May 2025)
(Don’t) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski; design by Luísa Dias (Wild Hunt Books / May 2025)
You can read about Luísa Dias’s work for Wild Hunt Books in Zach Petit’s April cover round-up for PRINT.
Also, the cover of Matt Wesolowski’s book Six Stories designed by Mark Swan was featured here way back in April 2017 (which was a pretty good month for covers!)
Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin; design by Luke Bird (Influx Press / May 2025)
Food Person by Adam Roberts; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / May 2025)
Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh; design by Beth Steidle (Tin House / May 2025)
The Holy Innocents Miguel Delibes; design by Jenny Volvovski (Yale University Press / May 2025)
Jenny has a new portfolio site so go check that out. (Also, if anyone has a higher res version of the cover for The Holy Innocents, please send it over! I’d love to have a better one. Thanks!)
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa; design by Michael Morris (Hogarth / March 2025)
I’m a couple of months late to this one, but I thought it went quite well with the cover of Foreign Fruit.
Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel; design by Danielle Mazzella di Bosco (Atria / May 2025)
Mothersalt by Mia Ayumo Malhotra; cover art by Yoshi Nakagawa (Alice James Books / May 2025)
Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory by Iddo Gefen; design by Pablo Delcan (Astra House / April 2025)
Parallel Lines by Edward St. Aubyn; design by Suzanne Dean (Vintage / May 2025)
The cover of the US edition, out next month (OK, next week) from Knopf, was designed by John Gall Jack Smyth (sorry Jack!).
Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski; deisgn by Math Monahan (Simon & Schuster / May 2025)
Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth; design by Sarah Foster; photo by Ed Templeton (HarperCollins / May 2025)
I am a sucker for good photo selection on a cover. This photo is from Ed Templeton’s series/installation (and book) Teenage Smokers. Although it is kind of interesting to me that a book with such a British title uses a photograph by an American photographer, but it does have incredible 1990s vibes.
Sympathy for Wild Girls by Demree McGhee; design by Dana Li (Feminist Press / May 2025)
That’s All I Know by Elisa Levi; design by Alban Fischer (Graywolf / May 2025)
The cover of the UK edition, published by Daunt Books, was designed by Kishan Rajani. It’s interesting to see the differences in two covers with a similar approach…
Time and Chance by Katharine Coles; design by Joan Wong (Turtle Point Press / April 2025)
I 100% mean this in the best possible way, but this feels like a very Joan Wong cover somehow!
The True Happiness by Veena Dinavahi; design by Rachel Ake (Random House / May 2025)
The Wanderer’s Curse by Jennifer Hope Choi; design by Grace Han (W. W. Norton / May 2025)
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