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Canongate unveils 'timeless' cover design for Nick Cave book
Canongate has unveiled a “timeless” cover design for Nick Cave’s new book.
Faith, Hope & Carnage, co-written with Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan, will publish in September. Canongate snapped up the book after a 10-way auction last year. It is described as an “extended conversation” between the pair who have known each other for 30 years.
The cover, which will also be used by FSG in the United States, is the work of New York-based designer Alex Merto and depicts a silver circle against a clean, white background, with the names of the authors in a strong black font.
Merto said: “There isn’t a single image that could succinctly capture all that the conversations touched on in this book so I wanted the cover to be open to interpretation. It could be a halo or a ring. It could be an entrance or an absence. A moon, or a sun, or an ouroboros. My desire was to create something iconic and timeless.”
The book is already confirmed for publication in 12 countries outside the UK: the US, Australia, Germany, Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Finland and Portugal, with more announcements expected to follow.
