Dust Jacket Lust: Books by Their Covers

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.

Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups - Out October 29th 2015.

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.

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.