Friday, 22 March 2013

Heaps of Hoyningen-Huene

The cover of an interesting-looking new novel from Serpent's Tail (Petitie Mort by Beatrice Hitchman)...



..also seems strangely familiar: this photo by George Hoyningen-Huene has graced (I us the word advisedly) a number of book covers in recent years:




..and not only in English:

This photo is much too classy for horrible old Ayn Rand--a  fistful of dog turds wrapped in cellophane would be more appropriate.

A Japanese publication, the title of which translates as 'The History of World Costume'
UPDATE: Sharp-eyed commenter Gervase Fen pointed out another, the about-to-be-published Black Roses, which oddly enough also uses the identical typeface to Petite Mort.


8 comments:

  1. You think Ayn Rand turds deserve the upper class embrace of cellophane? Surely you jest

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  2. Sorry, I didn't phrase that well. Normal turds get the cellophane. Actual Rand turds get Dan Brown "shelf-talkers".

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  3. See also Jane Thynne's "Black Roses", published by Simon & Schuster UK this coming Thursday.

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  4. karl, that is a bit unfortunate, you're right.

    gervase, thank you! i'm adding it to the post.

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  5. Sharp eye, James. Brought a chuckle to my evening.

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  6. I spotted the Petite Mort and Black Roses too - amazing to see all these others!

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  7. The near-simultaneous publication of those two is unfortunate.

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