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Tampering 23 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
Continuing the theme from the interview last week, here's the clever and similarly themed cover for Alissa Nutting's Tampa, about a female teacher with a ravenous sexual appetitie for under-aged boys....
Lo-lee-ta: An Interview with John Bertram 14 Aug 2013 | 06:12 am
One of the most interesting design books out this year is Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl, edited by John Bertram and Yuri Leving, published by Print Books. It's a fascinating examination of the hi...
Back to normal soon... 13 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am
Things round here will be back to normal soon--my apologies. As a sort of offering in my defence, a new Whiskey Priest Book has just been published: Anthony Trollope's steampunk science-fiction novel,...
WordArt 1, James Joyce 0 26 Jul 2013 | 10:08 am
Would you like to buy the ugliest editions available of some of the great classics? Let me introduce you to the output of eMagination Classics. Unlike Tutis or Emereo, someone here has theoretically r...
This Will Probably Only Make Sense to Other Australians 22 Jul 2013 | 04:30 am
Former Australian immigration Minister (now promoted to Treasurer) Chris Bowen has a new book out. I couldn't believe it when I saw the awful mistakes all over the front cover. Fortunately, I was abl...
Tutis has a Challenger 20 Jul 2013 | 06:46 am
In these sad days when Tutis no longer seems to be producing new, demented editions of the classics, I have found the days long and grey and empty. But now I have discovered the output of Emereo Publi...
Stuff 17 Jul 2013 | 05:22 am
In which I break a long gap between posts by lazily posting the covers of upcoming books that I love the covers of. More substantial posts are coming... A cheery YA novel set in an alternative 1962 w...
Somebody Use These NOW 2 Jul 2013 | 05:24 am
I don't often post speculative covers here--as in non-published covers for books, covers created by designers for their own amusement--but the work of Belgian-based illustrator and designer Levente Sz...
Ancient North: New & Improved 21 Jun 2013 | 04:23 am
As a follow-up to yesterday's posting of the Penguin Legends of the Ancient North covers, here they are in their final, high-resolution versions: please click for nice big versions. They are the work ...
Father Brown, Ancient North 19 Jun 2013 | 05:10 am
A brief post showing off two new series coming from Penguin Classics UK at the end of the year: first of all, the five books in the 'Legends from the Ancient North' series: These are really nice, wit...
