Dust Jacket Lust: Books by Their Covers

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DJL returns from a long slumber to WANT. Particularly the Zarbi and the Daleks.

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A VERY VINTAGE CHRISTMAS!

Inspired by vintage wrapping paper, this seasonal selection includes: A Christmas Carol and Dickens at Christmas/Charles Dickens, A Redbird Christmas/Fannie Flagg, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm/Stella Gibbons, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller/Italo Calvino, Christmas Holiday/W. Somerset Maugham, Winter Holiday/Arthur Ransome, Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow/Peter Høeg and A Week in December/Sebastian Faulks.

Keep an eye out for a closer look at these festive favourites nearer the 25th!

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DJL burns/pines/perishes.

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With the obvious proviso that DJL hopes the red sticker on this special edition of The Girl on the Train comes off, this festive beaut from Watersones is more than a bit gorgeous. And are those red-edged pages? Swoon!

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DJL loves her some vintage Larkin. She would definitely use this diary religiously for oh maybe a month before letting it moulder on a drawer for the rest of the year as is the fate of all DJL's planners.

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Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups - Out October 29th 2015.

Order: http://bit.ly/LBFGFullset

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DJL WANTS.

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Susie Wright’s artwork for Andrew Miller’s One Morning Like a Bird from Hodder & Staughton.

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Susie Wright’s cover for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue from Atlantic Books. A bit of a spoiler, but that’s by the by.

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DJL loves it when she discovers a new linocut artist. Here are Liz Myhill’s illustrations for Kirsty Logan’s A Portable Shelter.

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VINTAGE SCOTTISH CLASSICS

In time for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, Vintage are publishing five classic novels from the 1980s and 1990s. To celebrate the Scottish heritage of these amazing works of fiction, we set out to commission five illustrators with similar Scottish roots. 

Edinburgh-based illustrator Iain McIntosh brilliantly evokes Jeff Torrington’s image of the Gorbals in the 1960s for Swing Hammer Swing! Liz Myhill uses a bold linocut style to create a disturbing illustration for John Burnside’s dark poetic novel, The Dumb House. Glasgow’s David Fleck drew on his architectural background to create a mesmerising illlustration depicting the cities in A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise. Susie Wright, an illustrator and printmaker from Edinburgh, captures the melancholy and downward spiral of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing. The scene of Morvern Callar swimming at night in Alan Warner’s 1996 novel is eerily illustrated by Sally Pring.

The illustrators were given freedom to interpret each book in their own style, but were asked to keep to a palette of colours. This way the novels each work as individual books within the Vintage Classics list and also work well as a small collection of Scottish Classics.

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Andy Bridge’s covers for Tim Winton’s books from Picador.

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Andy Bridge’s covers for Michael Palin’s books from Orion.

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Andy Bridge’s covers for Richard Feynman’s books from Penguin UK.

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DJL stocks up on a few T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted pretties (Jutland by Selima Hill, Deep Lane by Mark Doty, 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson, and Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry) and throws in Andrew McMillan’s Physical for good measure. Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric still in the post.

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Andy Bridge’s covers for Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano Mystery series from Penguin US.

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WORLDS ELSEWHERE - Andrew Dickson

Anti-apartheid Activist, Bollywood Screenwriter, Nazi Pin-Up, Hero of the Wild West: This is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before.

Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere sees author Andrew Dickson take us on a personal journey rich in insight and surprise. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s plays appear at the most fascinating of times and in the most unexpected of places.

For the cover we commissioned Andy Bridge to take the iconic Shakespeare bust and illustrate him in different guises. Working with metal and paint, Andy created the cover image in 3D which was then photographed from the front and behind to create the finished jacket.

Available now from The Bodley Head.

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Lots of Andy Bridge to follow! Stay tuned!

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I am proud to present our 2015 Olive Editions! Once again designed by Monsieur Milan Bozic, these modern classics will go on sale September 29, 2015 for 10 buckaroos each.

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Delish.

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Unless DJL is much mistaken, these are they wot contain the Tall Girl poems. Which probably shouldn’t be available for public consumption, but hey ho, they’re fine looking tomes.