Yay, time for another Cover Love post and for this one I’m featuring a set of delicious covers from an equally deliciously named UK indy publisher. Founded in January 2008 Roastbooks are a rising London-based publisher, whose specialty is in works of short fiction from fresh contemporary authors. Publishing under the title of Great Little Reads, and marketing on the impression that their books are good enough to eat, Roastbook’s website plays up to this analogy to the max.
I’ve got to say that if their covers are anything to go by, these books really do look good enough to eat. I love their simplicity. I love their straightforwardness in design. And most of all I love their cover illustrations. As I’ve said the stories are all new and fresh (you can find out more about each one by clicking on the covers above), and that’s wholly supported by the cover design.
There are only six titles to date and they all appear to be desirable (they could certainly be called fresh. I’ve never heard of any of these authors before), but my absolute favourite in this delightful half-a-dozen has to be Little Roasts, a title that contains a selection of short stories. I really do like the mental image that this title throws up, an image which is reinforced by the steaming cook-pot on the cover, a cook-pot that you know, or rather hope, is full of tasty short story morsels.
As a taster (pun intended 
)) I’ve gone and ordered Little Roasts. So I’ll be able to tell you in a few days just how well these Great Little Reads measure up, and if these books really are as tasty as their covers would wholeheartedly suggest.
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Gorgeous. These remind me of stamps from Germany. I like the Little Roasts cover the best, too.
The first thing I thought when I saw these was, “These book covers look so British…” I guess I was right! Something about them reminds me of the UK editions of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. That said, these really don’t appeal to my crude American sensibilities.
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An interesting response Jake. I have to say the design of these books look better when there’s a bunch of them together as opposed to individually, and they do look better in the flesh so to speak. I do see where you’re coming from though, but sometimes bland can be appealing (to boring old me anyway
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Thanks for dropping by
Rob