The Girl with the Louding Voice was on the Fiction Book of the Month display at Waterstones Piccadilly. This happened in October 2020, so I’m late to posting it on here. Photos by Kimberley Chen.
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Louding Voice was Featured in Sky Arts Book Club Live
It was brilliant to see The Girl with the Louding Voice paperback selected for discussion on the Sky Arts Book Club Live! The show is presented by Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver. There was also great book chat from the author, Abi Daré and The Candid Book Club. You can still watch the episode if you head over to the Sky TV Facebook page.
Andi Oliver told Good Housekeeping magazine:
“I’m obsessed with The Girl With the Louding Voice. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in such a long time. It works on so many levels. I think Abi Daré is one of the most exciting new voices in literature that I’ve read in a very long time. It’s witty, it’s challenging, it’s exciting. There’s a thriller running through it.
I’m definitely going to be giving that to a couple of people, one of which is my aunt who lives in Antigua. She loves to read. Whenever I go to Antigua, I take her the books I’m most excited about, so I’m going to be taking her The Girl With the Louding Voice.”
Elizabeth Day says on Women’s Prize for Fiction:
“I have just finished The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t already read it. It is such a vibrant, tender, beautiful novel and the heroine is this 14-year-old girl who has such a feisty spirit that I just fell in love with her, and fell in love with the book.”
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Louding Voice is Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month
I’m super delighted to say that the paperback edition of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré has been chosen as Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for October. It is important to have diversity reflected in the books we read and so I’m proud to have been a part of designing the cover for this amazing book. Design is by @natalieyulichen. The stunning portrait illustration is by @kimberleykl_chen.
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The Sight of You
I have designed the book cover for The Sight of You by Holly Miller. And there is a Hollywood film deal for this book! See article below and I’m mentioned too.
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CoDex 1962 Featured in The Casual Optimist
My CoDex 1962 book cover, illustrated by Owen Gent, was featured in The Casual Optimist as part of Book Covers of Note September 2018. Not actually published in September but was mentioned as the American cover was picked out too.
Link here: http://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2018/09/14/book-covers-of-note-september-2018/
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A Year of Reading Aloud Featured in Spine Magazine
A Year of Reading Aloud gets a shout out in this week’s (5th October) Book Covers We Love in Spine Magazine! Yay hooray!! Art direction is by me and the absolutely beautiful illustration and lettering by Clairice Gifford. It is published by Yellow Kite Books and is a lovely collection of poems to learn by both classic and new talents. To have a look click on this link: http://spinemagazine.co/book-covers-we-love/05102018
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Bookshop in July 2018
Some of my book cover designs spotted standing tall at various bookshops.
Owen Gent was the illustrator of Sjón’s previous novel, Moonstone. And it was great to team up with him again for CoDex 1962. He has done a fantastic job of developing my concept and design forwards. As always using delicious colour combinations! The below photo is from Foyles in Stratford.
Record of a Spaceborn Few with its colourful starry sky, is also in Foyles. This book has recently become The Sunday Times UK top ten bestseller!
The sunny weather and ice cream season requires a good looking summery cover. As demonstrated by the lovely book, The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night PB.
The vibrant yellow paperback of In Every Moment We Are Still Alive is in Liverpool Street station’s Pocket Shop.
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Becky Chambers Reads Record of a Spaceborn Few!
Lovely author, Becky Chambers came into read and sign books for a Record of a Spaceborn Few. Was a great pleasure meeting her after having fun designing her book cover!
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A Literary Conversation with May-Lan Tan, Eley Williams and Chris Power
Waterstones in Crouch End had an event with a conversation between May-Lan Tan (author of Things to Make and Break), Eley Williams (author of Attrib) and Chris Power (author of Mothers) about the power of short stories. The interviewer was Francine Toon editor of Things to Make and Break. It was really interesting hearing from each author and the links/themes between them. More info on the link below:
https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-may-lan-tan/london-crouch-end
I loved seeing my book cover design stacked up with two other good looking book covers.
And I finally got to meet the lovely author May-Lan. I’m such a fan of her book, so it was nice to have a chat with her.
Photo taken from the Waterstones Instagram account and a great choice of matching pastel flowers with my cover.
More about Things to Make and Break:
A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend’s desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelganger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms.
Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction.
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Emily Eternal: Animated cover
Yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! Emily Eternal book now has its own animation!!!!!!!!!! See below post for more information about this excellent book with themes of artificial intelligence and a dying Sun.
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