Sad news: Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy has died at the age of 95. Some of Le Brocquy’s finest work can be seen in his illustrations for Thomas Kinsella’s translation of The Táin.
Some beautiful covers on show at Penguin’s new mini-site for the Penguin English Library.
‘Letters to a Young Contrarian’ by Christopher Hitchens
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. Brilliant cover.
‘The Three Astronauts’ by Umberto Eco. Lovely collage-centred illustration by Eugenio Carmi. (Via Brainpickings) http://t.co/Uji8OWqj
I was walking past the bookshop and this cover for ‘Wonder’ by RJ Palacio stopped me in my tracks. It’s like a naïve ‘Clockwork Orange’…
