vintagebooksdesign: VINTAGE SCOTTISH CLASSICS In time for this year’s Edinburgh International

vintagebooksdesign:

VINTAGE SCOTTISH CLASSICS

In time for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, Vintage are publishing five classic novels from the 1980s and 1990s. To celebrate the Scottish heritage of these amazing works of fiction, we set out to commission five illustrators with similar Scottish roots. 

Edinburgh-based illustrator Iain McIntosh brilliantly evokes Jeff Torrington’s image of the Gorbals in the 1960s for Swing Hammer Swing!Liz Myhill uses a bold linocut style to create a disturbing illustration for John Burnside’s dark poetic novel, The Dumb House. Glasgow’s David Fleck drew on his architectural background to create a mesmerising illlustration depicting the cities in A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise.Susie Wright, an illustrator and printmaker from Edinburgh, captures the melancholy and downward spiral of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing. The scene of Morvern Callar swimming at night in Alan Warner’s 1996 novel is eerily illustrated by Sally Pring.

The illustrators were given freedom to interpret each book in their own style, but were asked to keep to a palette of colours. This way the novels each work as individual books within the Vintage Classics list and also work well as a small collection of Scottish Classics.