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Wednesday Cover Story: The four covers to Under the Dome
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
These are the four different covers to the book Under the Dome, by Stephen King - depicting each of the four main characters in the book.
As book covers go, these covers do look odd, with the title and author name pushed to the bottom of the image, almost as though the designer wished he didn’t [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: C is for Creative and Clever Cover
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
It is an obvious fact that book covers follow certain trends with new books mimicking the look of the current bestsellers. It’s a way of helping readers recognise a similar kind of book, or indeed (for the more cynical of you) a way to encourage them to think “I’m going to be getting something similar [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: Innocent
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
I can’t make my mind up as to whether I like this cover or not.
It is certainly eye-catching and original with the 3D effect of the lettering - it certainly stands out. However, whilst I can appreciate the design concept in itself, I’m not sure I actually like it as a book cover for a [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Very Many Lives of Pi
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Not long ago I wandered into Waterstone’s on Gower Street over lunch and lo and behold, who was sitting there merrily signing books, but Life of Pi author Yann Martel. Admittedly, Beatrice and Virgil has not set the publishing world alight, but the author looked unperturbed, happily watching customers stroll past, seemingly unbothered by the [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: Petition to change a cover
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Some book covers delight readers, others disappoint, and more often than not there are mixed views on the same one - some like it, some don’t. It’s par for the course.
What you don’t expect, is for readers to reaction so strongly to a cover that they set up a petition to change it! but this [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Crash of Hennington
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
An example of a book I picked up solely because of the cover. It lept out at me - how could anyone miss these big and bold colours? The bright pink, offset by a softer band of blue, plus the contrasting yellow of the title - it all works brilliantly together. And then, once your [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
I can’t get on the tube these days without spotting a poster for the new DVD release of the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And of course, you will also find the obligatory film tie-in version of the novel by Stieg Larsson in bookstores. The film poster makes an equally effective cover to [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: Hang some cover-art on your wall
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Do you have a blank wall in the house needing a bit of colour? Do you balk at the idea of another samesame ikea flower print or lighthouse scene? Then check out Art Meets Print, a one-stop shop for iconic book cover designs that would make stunning artwork. For example…
I know we’ve been harping on [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: Do you see a trend here?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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The success of The Interpretation of Murder (one of Richard & Judy’s Summer Reads) certainly has spawned similar cover designs on subsequent books. That publishers look to ride on the success of a previous titles by evoking similar designs on their new books is standard practice, but the [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The new look for Mary Russell…
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
There’s a little frisson of excitement in the office this morning, as the new titles in Laurie R King’s bestselling Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series have arrived from the printers…sporting the new cover design which we all adore.
I can tell you the screen shots do not do them justice. In fact, I wasn’t entirely [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: In a Strange Room
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
The Hidden Dance - the debut novel by actress Susan Wooldridge - was recently reviewed in The Lady magazine (25th May). I’ve already raved about the cover to this book here, so I’m not about to repeat myself. I mention this because I was immediately intrigued by the cover of the book featured next [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The age-old issue - UK v US covers
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
It seems this is a recurring theme - the comparison between UK and US covers.
The Book Butterfly blogger recently featured a post which compared UK and US covers for various hit vampire series. Read the post here. We’ve certainly had plenty of comments about our new look for the Morganville Vampire series with the [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Stephenie Meyer Effect
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
In a recent issue of The Bookseller an eagle-eyed Bookworld buyer wrote in noting the striking similarity between Stephenie Meyer’s The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine book.
From vampire to viticulture, glass of red anyone?
Any other glaringly similar covers taken you by surprise?
Lara Crisp, Managing Editor
Want to flag up a [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: Air Kisses
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Air Kisses, by Zoë Foster: This cover makes me want to stare at it for hours. It’s an extremely pretty design.
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Wednesday Cover Story: How hard can designing a book cover be?
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Many of you may have asked yourselves the above question, and perhaps felt inspired to take a shot at it. And this is exactly what Penguin proposed readers do when they offered up a chance to have people design their own covers to a Penguin Classic. The results have been posted here - some better [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Hidden Dance
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
We’ve had so many compliments about our paperback cover to The Hidden Dance, by Susan Wooldridge that I had to highlight it here for this week’s cover story. We love the image so much we chose it as the cover to our new catalogue too. Are you as enamoured by it as we and others [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Boys in the Trees
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
I was on Dovegreyreader’s book review blog the other day, and was scrolling down the list of books she has featured under her 2010 reads when one cover caught my eye - even as a thumbnail. It was The Boys in the Trees, by Mary Swan.
Those daubs of red stood out against that emerald background [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: The Hungry Ghosts
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
On the platform of the northbound Northern Line at Waterloo (where I spend a minimum of a minute every morning heading into the office) there is a poster for The Hungry Ghosts, by Anne Berry (basically the book cover blown up to poster proportions). I have spent the last few weeks admiring this image, so [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: 1 book, 2 covers
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
I saw a woman reading Hilary Mantel’s new book Wolf Hall on the tube this morning which has prompted me to bring up the subject of books released with two covers. This particular woman was reading the version with the black cover, but it is also published in white. Our Publishing Director, Susie (who is [...]
Wednesday Cover Story: New Look for Harry Potter
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Bloomsbury has announced that they will be rejacketing the entire Harry Potter series this winter to appeal to the ‘next generation of fans’. They are calling it The Signature Look. Great news for the artists and designers behind the revamp, although the first image released doesn’t excite me at all. Am I the only one?
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The Slap , by Christos Tsolkias Lara: An excellent reading group choice as there’s much to discuss. Clever, yes. Would I recommend it? Not so sure. Very interesting subverting of characters but it’s taken me till around the middle of the book to start really getting in to it.
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