Cover Love: The (RED) series from Penguin Classics

If you follow my Cover Love series then you would know that I have a bit of a thing for typography-based cover designs. In the past I’ve praised the virtues of the ‘Art of the Novella’ series from Melville House, hailed the glory that is [...]

Cover Love: Knut Hamsun series from Souvenir Press

In my latest Cover Love feature, I take a look at the Munch emblazoned covers of the Hamsun series from Souvenir Press

Cover Love: Ox-Tales collection from Profile Books

Published this week (July 4th), the four volume Ox-Tales collection is the product of a unique collaboration between Profile Books, Oxfam and the Hay Festival, which brings together 38 of the UK’s leading writers, each offering a new and unpublished short story or extract in order to raise funds for Oxfam projects around the world.

With a cost of £5 per book, with at least 50p going directly to Oxfam, there’s only one thing that matches the quality of the content, and that’s the deliciousness of the covers, which are based on the four elements – earth, air, fire and water.

Cover Love: Faber 80 Beckett Series

What do you get when you cross a new series of books dedicated to Samuel Beckett from Faber & Faber, with top design studio A2/SW/HK? The answer – a unique and delightful set of book covers on which the main design element is the title.

Join me as I celebrate these covers in a new ‘Cover Love’ feature, and share a word or two with the creative geniuses responsible for the design.

Cover Love: Great Little Reads from Roastbooks

There have been plenty of analogies comparing the act of reading to that of eating but UK publisher Roastbooks have taken the concept to the maximum and shaped their entire brand around it.

They publish ‘Great Little Reads’, a series which promises ’satisfying bites of contemporary literature’, and their covers for these are so delicious that they’re the focus of RobAroundBook’s latest Cover Love feature.

Cover Love: Capuchin Classics

It’s time for a new ‘Cover Love’ feature and this one was inspired initially not by a book cover but by a catalogue, and not by the content of the catalogue either, but the catalogue itself!

As you can see I’m ‘cover loving’ a series of books again and it’s another one with minimalist design. It’s also one with delicious minty green accents, a colour scheme which you will see dominant on the publisher’s website.

The cover artist for Harper’s Classic Short Story Collection speaks up

In a small follow-up to my latest ‘Cover Love’ feature, I managed to catch up with the featured artist to ask him about his inspiration

Cover Love: Harper’s Classic Short Story Collections

Take half-a-dozen carefully selected colours, add a cardboard cutout effect for each of the authors, and you have a luscious new series from Harper that one just can’t help falling in love with.

Welcome to the latest in the series that celebrates with a passion, the glorious art of the book cover.

Cover Love: Two recent acquisitions that make me go mmm…

Time to share a bit of deserved ‘cover love’ for two books I’ve recently received for review – Emergency by Neil Strauss and Broken Glass by Alian Mabanckou

Cover Love: The Melville House ‘Art of the Novella’ series

What do you get when you cross a PANTONE colour chart with a leading publishing house? This gorgeous set of novellas from Melville House Publishing, as featured in this latest episode of my ongoing series on the book covers that make me go mmmmmm.

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