Paul Sample, the cartoonist and illustrator, who has died aged 78, provided eye-catchingly manic covers for the comic novels ...

Some maxims hold. You can’t judge a book by its cover. Especially a novel by a female author. Women’s literature has moved beyond the pale — all matter of pinks from pale to insistent — to ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...

Mark Sinclair picks his ten favourite book covers of the year, chosen for their “strong, characterful, challenging and exciting” design Has it ever been easier to design a book cover? As with most ...

The idiom “never judge a book by its cover” warns against evaluating something purely by the way it looks. And yet book covers are designed to give readers an idea of the content, to make them want to ...