Class Task 3 Brief

BOOK COVER TASK

Design a cover for one of the book titles provided.

You can source images and graphics from the internet if you want, or make your own

- How will your design allude to the content of the book
- How will your design suggest the style and genre of the book?
- How will your design appeal to the target audience of the book?
- What about the author? Is the author important?

(Publishing houses also often want their own branding identity to be visible in their titles – eg. Penguin – but don’t worry about this for this task)

Outcome: A draft layout for a book cover.

AGAINST GRAVITY
GARY GIBSON
Publisher: TOR
Category: SC FICTION
PAPERBACK BOOK, $21.95, In Stock (Stock On Order) Which Shop?

In the late twenty-first century, you will find a very different world. Little is as it used to be, and many are not what they seem.
Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of an infamous research facility called the Maze, is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows the Labrat augments are slowly killing him. Then one day his heart stops beating, forever, and a ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares, a long-abandoned military complex filled with entirely real voices of the dead.

STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE
IAIN BANKS
Publisher: LITTLE BROWN
Category: FICTION
TRADE PAPERBACK, $27.95, In Stock (Stock On Order) Which Shop?
Love, family, truth … choose two of the above. Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks’ fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire!—now a wildly successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion—but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his bewitching cousin and teenage love, who’ll be present at the forthcoming family gathering—part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting—at Garbadale, their highland castle? Full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, The Steep Approach to Garbadale is Iain Banks’ most compelling novel since The Crow Road.

GROTESQUE
NATSUO KIRINO
Publisher: HARVILL
Category: CRIME FICT
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Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo. Yuriko had been working as a prostitute all her adult life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what she lacked in intellect and commanded attention from older men. Kazue worked for a blue-chip company and had good career prospects, but was unpopular with colleagues and felt isolated. She chose to walk the streets at night where she hoped to get noticed. Twenty years previously both women were educated at an elite school for young ladies, and both exhibited exceptional promise prior to their brutal , unnecessary deaths. How and why did this tragedy occur? With narration from Yuriko's embittered, unattractive sister and through the girls' journals and diaries Kirino allows their shocking story to unfurl. As with OUT, Grotesque gets under the skin, and Kirino's analysis of the female psyche grips the reader. The extreme need to succeed, and the vicious desire to be accepted in the bewildering environment of modern life is explored here with acute and chilling insight. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting achievement.

Hollywood Wives: the New Generation
Jackie Collins

Power. Sex. Money. Fame. Hollywood players have it all. Ambitious, young, smart and lethal Hollywood wives are back, and leading the pack is mega movie star Lissa Roman. Seemingly invincible, Lissa is on top of her game, until her wild-child daughter is kidnapped by a crazed psychopath.