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Published July 24, 2021

Book Covers of Note, July 2021

I’m unplugging for a bit, so just a cheeky quick one this month…

Astra by Cedar Bowers; design by Lisa Jager (McClelland and Stewart / June 2021)

Believers by Lisa Wells; design Na Kim; art by Lisa Ericson (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux / July 2022)

The Coward by Jarred McGinnis; design by Valeri Rangelov; photograph by Peter van Agtmael (Canongate / July 2021)

Falling by T. J. Newman; design by David Litman (Simon & Schuster / July 2021)

I get big 1970s disaster movie vibes from this… Airport and its sequels come to mind.

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix design by David Litman (Berkley Books / July 2021)

If I remember correctly, David actually dipped a miniature folding chair in paint and photographed it for this… (I don’t think I’m making that up)

Anyway a nice Litman double…

Like Me by Hayley Phelan; design Emma Dolan (Doubleday Canada / July 2021)

Lorna Mott Comes Home by Diane Johnson; design by Jenny Carrow; art by Barbara Hoogeweegen (Knopf / June 2021)

On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason; design Zoe Norvell (Open Letter / March 2021)

Something Wild by Hanna Halperin; design by Lynn Buckley (Viking / June 2021)

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Published January 29, 2021

Book Covers of Note, January 2021

A short post this month as 2021 seems to have picked up where 2020 finished and there is, as they say, no rest for the wicked…

The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye; design by Perry De La Vega (Vintage / January 2021)

The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen; design by Na Kim (FSG / January 2021)

The individual volumes of the trilogy, Childhood, Youth, and Dependency, are also available with covers by Na Kim.

Can anyone tell me what the typeface with the curiously cropped corners is?

A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion; design by Caroline Teagle Johnson (Harper / January 2021)

The Divines by Ellie Eaton; design by Mumtaz Mustafa (William Morrow / January 2021)

Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller; design by Anna Kochman; illustration by Mike McQuade (One World / January 2021)

In the Land of the Cyclops by Karl Ove Knausgaård; design by Matt Broughton (Harvill Secker / January 2021)

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden; design by Gill Heeley (Canongate / January 2021)

Nine Days by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick; design by June Park (FSG / January 2021)

Outlawed by Anna North; design by Rachel Willey (Bloomsbury / January 2021)

A River Called Time by Courttia Newland; design by Valeri Rangelov; illustration by Joe Van Wetering (Canongate / January 2021)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zara Neale Hurston; design by Stephen Brayda; art by Patrick Dougher (Amistad Press / January 2021)

Amistad are in the process of repackaging all of the Zora Neale Hurtson backlist. Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick, with a cover designed by Stephen Brayda and art by Bradley Theodore, was published in January 2020.

Weather by Jenny Offill; design by Linda Huang (Vintage / January 2021)

I was immediately reminded of the cover of Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill, also designed designed by Linda Huang:

The cover of the UK paperback of Weather, published by Granta this month, was designed by Jo Walker. She wrote about her design process for Spine Magazine.

Interesting that both paperback designs are so different from each other and their respective hardcovers (which were quite different to each other too)…

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