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Recitatif, the only short story Toni Morrison ever wrote, is about race and the relationships that shape our lives, with a new substantial introduction from Zadie Smith
This powerful story about race and friendship, tells the story of girls Twyla and Roberta who meet at the age of eight in a children’s home. Inseparable as children, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at various junctures in their lives. A beautiful abstract painting by Liverpool based artist Millie Toyin Olateju graces the cover. The layers and overlapping of colours in Millie’s piece reminded the designer of the meetings between Twyla and Roberta in the story and serves as an abstract representation of their story building and their relationship.

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Design by Kris Potter.

Published by @chattobooks, Recitatif is available now.
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Vintage Classics today publish four new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, in celebration of her life and work.

The portrait of a woman on Sula and the portrait of a girl on The Bluest Eye are both taken by the iconic Charles “Teenie” Harris, who was famed for capturing the African American community in and around Pittsburgh during the 1930s-70s.

Swipe across to see the new editions.

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Pandora is a thrilling and atmospheric mystery set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations and romance.
The sumptuous cover design and eye-catching foil perfectly complements the richness of the novel. Swipe for a close up!
Cover illustration and design by @micaelaalcainodesign

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Acts of Desperation, Megan Nolan’s bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire is out now in paperback.
This waterstones special edition features speckled sprayed edges.

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To mark the centenary of the publication of Ulysses in Feb 2022, Vintage Classics are reissuing three of James Joyce’s works with a modern, bold new design.
The new designs, illustrated by Alessandra Weber, emphasise the vivid life and playfulness in Joyce’s writing.

Design by Rosie Palmer

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Frequently cited as one of the greatest works of English literature, Middlemarch tells the story of a fictional Midlands town underdoing modern changes, and the everyday drama of the characters living within it.

This sumptuous 150th Anniversary gift edition features details from an 1830s embroidered wool sampler currently housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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From experiencing grief and leaving her home country of Zimbabwe for the UK, to attending disruptive state schools and working long hours to support herself and her mother, Vee Kativhu has faced much adversity.

But through personal hardship, she has triumphed, using her experience to help people from all over the world recognise their own talent and achieve their goals. From attaining a bachelor’s degree from Oxford and a Master’s from Harvard to spreading her message of education, equal access and opportunity and empowerment to a global audience of over 300,000, Vee’s incredible journey has inspired young people around the world in need of a boost of confidence, motivation and practical life advice.

In Empowered, Vee draws from her own journey to teach you how to have a more fulfilled, motivated and empowered life in everything you do.

Empowered: Live Your Life with Passion and Purpose is published by @squarepegbooks and available now.

Design by @kishanrajanidesign

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Rose Tremain the modern-day mistress of historical fiction, returns with her latest novel Lily, a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murder.

Design by Kris Potter

Published by @chattobooks and available now.

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In a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville is attacked by violent white supremacists.

Families, friends and strangers flee for their lives in an abandoned bus, taking refuge in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historic plantation home in the hills above town.

Over nineteen heart-stopping days the group find ways to care for and sustain one another as the world burns beneath them.

Told by Da'Naisha Love, a young Black descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, My Monticello is a searing indictment of racism past and present, and a powerful vision of resistance, hope and love.

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Design by @suzanneldean
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Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about a village where only thirteen people remain, a country that no longer exists, a shattered family that is his own.

Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Stanišic traces a family’s escape during the conflict in Yugoslavia, and the years that followed as they built a life in Germany. As he explores what it means to be European today, he examines how it feels to learn a new language, to find new friends and new jobs, and to build an identity between countries and cultures.

Translated by Damion Searls, Where You Come From is about homelands, both remembered and imagined. A book that bends form and genre with wit, heart, and exceptional craftsmanship to explore questions that lie inside all of us: about language and shame, about arrival and making it just in time, about luck and death, about what role our origins and memories play in our lives.

Design by @suzanneldean photography by @felicedouglas

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The master of historical fiction and bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières, concludes his wartime trilogy with The Autumn of the Ace, now out in paperback. Swipe to see all three in the series.

Designed by Stephen Parker and Illustrations for all three books in the series are by Nicholas John Frith.

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Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears her past is catching up with her. Then she meets Pearl, a woman trying to forget her own traumas. As these next-door neighbours become unlikely friends, they wonder if their lives could finally be changing for the better. But small towns have long memories…

Rediscover Bernice McFadden’s debut novel now.

Design by @danmog.covers, illustration by Vi-An Nguyen.

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It’s been 30 years since The Famished Road won the Booker Prize and Ben Okri’s trilogy of novels have been redesigned to reach a whole new generation of readers. The new covers take a dynamic, layered approach making use of lots of colour to evoke a sense of energy.

Design and illustration by @kishanrajanidesign

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Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly grind to a halt; we simply cannot function without them. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a lifetime’s study, Dave Goulson reveals the shocking decline of insect populations that has taken place in recent decades, with potentially catastrophic consequences. He passionately argues that we must all learn to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.

Eye-opening, inspiring and riveting, Silent Earth is part love letter to the insect world, part elegy, part rousing manifesto for a greener planet. It is a call to arms for profound change at every level - in government policy, agriculture, industry and in our own homes and gardens. Although time is running out, it is not yet too late for insect populations to recover. We may feel helpless in the face of many of the environmental issues that loom on our horizon, but Goulson shows us how we can all take simple steps to encourage insects and counter their destruction.

Silent Earth is out now.

Insect prop styling and design by @kmsalvagedesign

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From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to great chunks of fermented sheep meat in the Faroe Islands, from pistachios in Syria to flat oysters in Denmark, from a wild honey harvested with the help of birds to an exploding corn that might just hold the key to the future of food - these are just some of the thousands of foods around the world today that are at risk of being lost for ever.

In this captivating and wide-ranging book, Dan Saladino spans the globe to uncover the stories of these foods. He meets the pioneering farmers, scientists, cooks, food producers and indigenous communities who are preserving food traditions and fighting for change. All human history is woven through these stories, from the first great migrations to the slave trade to the refugee crisis today. But Eating to Extinction is about so much more than preserving the past. It reveals a world at a crisis point: the future of our planet depends on reclaiming genetic biodiversity before it is too late.

The gorgeous illustration on the front and back cover is by linocut artist by Clare Melinsky.

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Entangled Life is Merlin Sheldrake’s engaging study into the wonderful world of Fungi and it’s out now in paperback! These sprayed edge special editions are exclusive to Waterstones. #entangledlife #bookdesign #bookcover #newbooks #jacketdesign #graphicdesign #coverdesign
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Greek Myths is a spellbinding, complete and innovative retelling of the some of the oldest and greatest tales of all time Unlike in many previous collected myths, female characters take centre stage - Athena, Helen, Circe, Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate imagined tapestries. In Charlotte Higgins’s thrilling new interpretation, their tales combine to form a dazzling, sweeping epic of storytelling, and a magnificent work of scholarship and imagination. Turner prizewinning artist Chris Ofili’s original drawings inspired by Charlotte Higgins’ text appear on the cover and throughout the book, which you can get a peek of over @jonathancape.

The cover drawing is a detail taken from the work ‘The Judgement of Paris’. Greek Myths is available from today.

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The Inseparables is a gripping, coming-of-age novel based on a real-life friendship between Simone de Beauvoir and her friend Zaza who died young in early twentieth-century France.
Written in 1954, five years after The Second Sex, the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir’s lifetime. This first English edition includes an afterword by her adopted daughter, who discovered the manuscript hidden in a drawer, and photographs of the real-life friendship which inspired and tormented the author.

The Inseparables is published by Vintage and available from today.

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Hidden Heritage powerfully recontextualises the relationship between Britain and the people and societies of the Orient. In her journey across Britain exploring cultural landmarks, Fatima Manji searches for a richer and more honest story of a nation struggling with identity and the legacy of empire.

Jacket illustration by @namrata.kumar.art

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With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers’ peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature.

Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and mesmerising journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us - as readers, as writers, as human beings.

The cover entitled The Gift, is by Berlin-based artist and illustrator Tina Berning.

Checkout 19 is published by and available from today.

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