We’ve almost made it to the end of April, so that’s something. Thanks to Daniel Benneworth-Gray for the mention earlier this month. It surely means I’m about to disappoint a large number of people — if I have not, in fact, already done so — but I hope you find something you like here…
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan; design by Jamie Keenan (Scribner / April 2022)
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes; design by Suzanne Dean (Jonathan Cape / April 2022)
I believe the Elizabeth Finch cover also comes in yellow, but I wasn’t able to find a hi-res image. If anyone wants to send it over, I’ll be happy to add it.
The jacket also comes in yellow, which feels very on trend to me and the blue and yellow look lovely side by side. Thank you to Suzanne for taking the time to send over the image of the yellow version.
Suzanne also sent over an image of the boards for those of you curious to see what is under the jacket, peeking through the die-cuts. The gorgeous photograph is from René Groebli’s photoessay The Eye of Love.
This is the problem with seeing covers/jackets primarily online. You rarely get to appreciate these finer details. This must be a beautiful book to hold and unwrap.
But going back to cut-out circles/semi-circles for a moment. They reminded of Olga Kominek‘s cover design for The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing edited by Hannah Dawson published last year.
And I have been trying to recall what both these covers remind me of. Possibly ‘Composition of Circles and Semicircles‘ by abstract artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp?
End of the World House by Adrienne Celt; design by David Litman (Simon & Schuster / April 2022)
A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm; design by Colin Webber; image by Maciej Toporowicz (Viking / April 2022)
Like Animals by Eve Lemieux; design by Michel Vrana; illustration Saul Herrera (Rare Machines / April 2022)
Inspired by Basquiat presumably?
My Face in the Light by Martha Schabas; design by Kate Sinclair (Knopf Canada / April 2022)
Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes; design Milan Bozic; illustration by Laura Anastasio (Harper Perennial / March 2022)
(Special thanks to Caro for identifying the designer and illustrator)
Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe; design by Mark Ecob (Unbound / April 2022)
Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson; design by Lucy Kim (Little Brown and Co. / April 2022)
Feeling the international typographic style influence this month…
The Red Zone by Chloe Caldwell; design Michael Salu (Soft Skull Press / April 2022)
Their Four Hearts by Vladimir Sorokin; design by Alban Fischer (Dalkey Archive Press / April 2022)
The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed; design by James Paul Jones (Solaris / April 2022)
This is the third book in the ‘Beneath the Rising’ trilogy.
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart; design by Christopher Moisan; photograph by Kyle Thompson (Grove Press / April 2022)
The cover of the UK edition published by Picador features a photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans. The design is by Stuart Wilson.
