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.

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: The Haruki Murakami editions from Vintage UK

In this inaugural post for my new ‘Cover Love’ series, I take a look at a set of book covers that have been a favourite of mine for a while now – the UK editions of the Haruki Murakami titles published by Vintage. They’re luscious, lusty and they scream wanton desirability!

Introducing ‘Cover Love’ – a new series on RobAroundBooks

Coming within a couple of hours of this introduction will be the first post in a new series I’m bringing to RobAroundBooks called ‘Cover Love’. It’s a series which focuses on that emotional desire which is inherent in all bibliophiles – the lust for a good book cover.
‘Cover love’ is a passion that burns [...]

I do like the covers, but come on, SHARK SKIN? Yuck!!

Elizabeth at the Reading Copy Book Blog (the bookish blog run by the staff at AbeBooks) points to a very interesting portion of AbeBooks.com labeled ‘unusual bindings’.
Featuring 30 different books arranged in groups, with bindings ranging from vegetarian unfriendly eelskin, goatskin and python skin to the more luxurious silver & velvet, 22 karat gold and [...]

Penguin’s New ‘Gothic Red’ Series: Cover Art to Die For

Penguin release a new range of Gothic horrors under the ‘Gothic Red’ label, with cover art to die for