#dust jacket lust
A VERY VINTAGE CHRISTMAS!
Inspired by vintage wrapping paper, this seasonal selection includes:
A Christmas Carol and Dickens at Christmas/Charles Dickens, A Redbird Christmas/Fannie Flagg, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm/Stella Gibbons, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller/Italo Calvino, Christmas Holiday/W. Somerset Maugham, Winter Holiday/Arthur Ransome, Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow/Peter Høeg and A Week in December/Sebastian Faulks.Keep an eye out for a closer look at these festive favourites nearer the 25th!
DJL burns/pines/perishes.
With the obvious proviso that DJL hopes the red sticker on this special edition of The Girl on the Train comes off, this festive beaut from Watersones is more than a bit gorgeous. And are those red-edged pages? Swoon!
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DJL loves her some vintage Larkin. She would definitely use this diary religiously for oh maybe a month before letting it moulder on a drawer for the rest of the year as is the fate of all DJL’s planners.
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Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups - Out October 29th 2015.
Order: http://bit.ly/LBFGFullset
DJL WANTS.
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Susie Wright’s artwork for Andrew Miller’s One Morning Like a Bird from Hodder & Staughton.
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Susie Wright’s cover for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue from Atlantic Books. A bit of a spoiler, but that’s by the by.
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DJL loves it when she discovers a new linocut artist. Here are Liz Myhill’s illustrations for Kirsty Logan’s A Portable Shelter.
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DJL stocks up on a few T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted pretties (Jutland by Selima Hill, Deep Lane by Mark Doty, 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson, and Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry) and throws in Andrew McMillan’s Physical for good measure. Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric still in the post.
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Andy Bridge’s covers for Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano Mystery series from Penguin US.
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WORLDS ELSEWHERE - Andrew Dickson
Anti-apartheid Activist, Bollywood Screenwriter, Nazi Pin-Up, Hero of the Wild West: This is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before.
Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere sees author Andrew Dickson take us on a personal journey rich in insight and surprise. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s plays appear at the most fascinating of times and in the most unexpected of places.
For the cover we commissioned Andy Bridge to take the iconic Shakespeare bust and illustrate him in different guises. Working with metal and paint, Andy created the cover image in 3D which was then photographed from the front and behind to create the finished jacket.
Available now from The Bodley Head.
Lots of Andy Bridge to follow! Stay tuned!
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I am proud to present our 2015 Olive Editions! Once again designed by Monsieur Milan Bozic, these modern classics will go on sale September 29, 2015 for 10 buckaroos each.
Delish.
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Unless DJL is much mistaken, these are they wot contain the Tall Girl poems. Which probably shouldn’t be available for public consumption, but hey ho, they’re fine looking tomes.
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Also from Faber Members is this very cute dog on the cover of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It’ll set you back £50, but how can you resist those eyes?
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If, furthermore, you happen to have found £100 in an even older pair of jeans, it’ll buy you a signed and very, very pretty Faber Members (pfffft) edition of Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red.
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Found £50 in an old pair of trousers? That’ll get you a trippy Faber Members (childish snort) edition of The Bell Jar complete with delicious endpapers.
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If, like DJL, you don’t happen to have the $2,350 down the back of the sofa necessary to own all 52 of the titles in the Juniper Bookspiano keyboard set, you may wish to settle for a more modest octave. If, like DJL, you don’t happen to have $350 down the back of the sofa either, feel free to drool unrequitedly.
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Sets of children’s lit from Juniper Books. DJL respects the gender neutrality of the tortoise; the unspoken gendering of the other two sets, not so much.
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DJL has been away too long. As a reward for patience, here are NEW HARRY POTTER COVERSfromJuniper books. Ravenpuff for life (every day I’m Huffle-in’).
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More and yet more. DJL hearts this era of Penguin publishing with every fibre of her being.
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