Tag Archives: Picador
Books
Story of a Cover: Cargo
I’ve always had a nerdish fascination with book covers and the design-by-committee process through which they are made. After all, a book doesn’t start out with a cover. It begins life as text, faceless to the outside world. Typesetting, fonts, embossing and finish – all that comes … Read more
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Fear, complexity and commitment in Joe Meno’s The Great Perhaps
Publisher: Picador ISBN: 9780330519533 RRP: $32.99 Jonathan Casper – father of teenage daughters Thisbe and Amelia; son of Henry, an ex-aeronautical engineer for the US Air force; and husband to Madeline, whose research into the behaviour of pigeons is yielding bizarre results – suffers from a rare … Read more
