Alice Tait

While looking around for something else entirely, I came across the work of London illustrator/typographer Alice Tait, who has done a number of lovely covers. Here's what first grabbed my attention: the cover for Aliya Whiteley's Light Reading, a crime novel from the viewed-with-suspicion Macmillan New Writing imprint which I think I'll have to get.



Here are her covers for the Virago Modern Classics reissue of Elizabeth Jenkins' The Tortoise and the Hare, and Jill Dawson's Fred & Edie.




She's also done the elegant covers for a couple of recent cookbooks...




..a new magazine...



..and for the book about foxes which doesn't exist in the real world, but does exist between the covers of Blake Morrison's state-of-the-nation novel South of the River.