Black Dogs

A newish book (out for a bit in the UK/Australia, still to come in the US) I intend to read once I've worked my way through some more of the teetering piles already filling the house is Rebecca Hunt's Mr. Chartwell, which puts the "black dog" of depression into semi-solid form, and has him haunting a number of people, including Winston Churchill (who first coined the phrase). It sounds like the sort of book which could be really good or really bad, but all the reviews I've read suggest Hunt has pulled it off. The cover I had seen so far, for the UK version, is OK...

..but today I saw the imminent US cover (Dial Press), which I really, really like.

 

Designer unknown.

For some reason--the groovy old wallpaper?--it reminds me of the Back Bay Books covers for Evelyn Waugh's books in the US.

Illustrations by Bill Brown, design by Rymn Massand