A big, messy post this month as I catch up on the new releases and some of the covers I missed over the summer. I expect the next couple of month’s might be a bit like this as I work towards my round-up of the year, so feel free to let me know about stuff that you think I’ve overlooked in 2021.
The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock; design by David Litman (Simon & Schuster / August 2021)
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki; design by Gill Heeley (Canongate Books / September 2021)
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris; design by Gregg Kulick (Little Brown and Company / September 2021)
The China Room by Sunjeev Sahota; design by Tyler Comrie (Viking / July 2021)
Disorientation by Ian Williams; design by Lisa Jager (Random House Canada / September 2021)
The Hunter and the Old Woman by Pamela Korgemagi; design by Alysia Shewchuk (House of Anansi / August 2021)
King Richard by Michael Dobbs; design by Tyler Comrie (Knopf / May 2021)
Tyler Comrie also designed the cover of The Unwanted by Michael Dobbs. I like how the covers look related without looking the same.
Last Words on Earth by Javier Serena; design by Jack Smyth (Open Letter / September 2021)
Matrix by Lauren Groff; design by Grace Han (Riverhead / September 2021)
The cover of the UK edition was designed by Henry Petrides. He wrote about his process for SPINE.
Once More With Feeling by Sophie McCreesh; design by Jennifer Griffiths (Anchor Canada / August 2021)
Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson; design Jennifer Griffiths (Doubleday Canada / August 2021)
The sweeps of paint brought to mind the snake on Anna Morrison‘s cover for the Pushkin Press edition of My Cat Yugoslavia from a couple of year’s ago…
Red Milk by Sjón; design by Natalie Chen; illustration by Owen Gent (Sceptre / May 2021)
The UK cover of CoDex 1962 by Sjón also features artwork by Owen Gent.
The Shimmering State by Meredith Westgate; design Chelsea McGuckin (Atria / August 2021)
Something Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman; design by Emma Pidsley (Fourth Estate / August 2021)
The cover of the US edition was designed by Donna Cheng.
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vásquez; design by Alex Merto (Riverhead / August 2021)
Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero; design by Janet Hansen (New Directions / September 2021)
For some reason, I was reminded of this saucy Jacob Covey cover, which I thought was killed in favour of something more (ahem) traditional, but it still exists on Amazon, so who knows? (Jacob probably knows; I do not).
The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish; design by Linda Huang (Knopf / September 2021)
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