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Posts by Jack Smyth

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SPINE-March Book Covers We Love! Welcome to March’s Book Covers We Love! The full list is comprised of a selection of covers reviewed by a panel including Co-Founder of Chapman & Wilder, Cherie Chapman ; Freelance Designer Luis...

Here's SPINE's Book Covers We Love for March:

spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

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The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025 Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…

@jackflag.bsky.social's cover for Claire-Lise Kieffer's Tenterhooks was also cited by Jack's fellow designers as one of the best covers of the year in @literaryhub.bsky.social 🫴

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The Best Book Covers of 2025

Some lovely press this week – first up, @jackflag.bsky.social's cover for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts was listed as a best book cover of 2025 by @nytimes.com 🧡

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b... (1/3)

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The best book covers of the year 2025 Mark Sinclair picks his ten favourite book covers of the year, chosen for their “strong, characterful, challenging and exciting” design

Mark Sinclair weighs in on AI vs the actual real work of design, and chooses his favourite book covers of 2025 for Creative Review:

www.creativereview.co.uk/the-best-boo...

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Thanks Dan!

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Book Covers of Note, October 2025 Hey, I hope you're keeping safe and well wherever you are. Here are my latest book covers of note... Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett; design by Stephanie Ross; cover art by Maria Guimarães The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada; cover illustration by David Plunkert (New Directions / November 2025) Casanova 20 by Davey Davis; design by…

Here are this month's book covers of note...

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make it BIIGGGAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR

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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

The worst take.

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Opens tomorrow!

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Happy publication day to FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 🐎

‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy

‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty

‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry

‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson

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A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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New illustration for the New Yorker, both online and in print.
Huge thanks to Art Director Supriya Kalidas.

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Book Covers of Note, September 2025 Hey. I hope you're keeping safe and well. I'm posting this late on the last day of the month, but hopefully it was worth waiting for. I will let you get to the covers posthaste, but before I go, today (September 30th) is also Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, so I would like take a moment to acknowledge and remember the survivors of residential schools, their families and the kids who didn't come home.

Here are this month's book cover of note

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Mary Robinson is such a baller.

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Book Covers of Note, August 2025 Hey. Here are this month’s book covers of note. Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos; design by Beth Steidle (Tin House Books / August 2025) I really had to wrack my brain to think of what this …

ICYMI last week, here's the most recent book covers of note post:

www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/08...

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Dang.

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I don't have lots to say this month, but there are lots of great book covers all the same...

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Reissue cover for Dave Randal's Sound System, out now on @plutopress.bsky.social

Art Direction by Melanie Patrick.

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Cover for Swallows by Natsuo Kirino, out now on Canongate.

Art Director: Rafi Romaya

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Injury Time by Kevin Smith - The Lilliput Press In this sharp-eyed comedy of memories, middle age and long-buried mistakes, a privileged entrepreneur feels the chill winds of post-Brexit change in a society struggling to account for its past.

-a genuine exploration of aging, masculinity, and the slow erosion of certainty.

Out this September, Injury Time is available to pre-order from the Lilliput website now 📚

Cover design by the incredible @jackflag.bsky.social ✨️

Available to pre-order here: www.lilliputpress.ie/products/inj...

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Illustration for Adam Gopnik's piece 'Was the Renaissance Real?' in The New Yorker this week.

Huge thanks to Art Director Supriya Kalidas.

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Thanks Dan!

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23 of the Best Book Covers of July 2025 – PRINT Magazine Riffing with McSweeney's Sunra Thompson on the double cover for 'Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols,' plus our favorite cover finds of the month.

And here are Zachary Petit's latest book cover picks for PRINT Magazine!

www.printmag.com/book-covers/...

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It's absolutely wild to me that Stanley Tucci has yet to release his own brand of cantucci.

I'd love to pick up a bag of Stantuccis the next time I'm in Italy.

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First look: the gorgeous cover of FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's stunning novel-in-verse, coming from Banshee Press in October 2025. Cover photography by Oana Stoian, with design by Jack Smyth ✨

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @jackflag.bsky.social

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Surely Andor is a show about people who can't make up their minds. In space.

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Cheers Max!

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Cover design for Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley, publishing today via @bansheepress.bsky.social

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Love hearing the US acts say "Hello Glaston Berry!" every year.

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Book Covers of Note, June 2025 It’s been another busy month here, so apologies for the slightly scattered post. It includes a few covers that I missed earlier in early in the year, and a few other bits and pieces. I hope e…

ICYMI, here's my latest round-up of new and recent book covers and design trends:

www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/06...

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