Bello is Pan Macmillan’s digital andprint-on-demand (POD) imprint,
established to revive classic and out of
print titles as both ebooks and large
format paperbacks.
To celebrate our newest hero cover, here are all the fabulous designs together! From top to bottom:
- An Impossible Marriage
- The Passenger
- The Megstone Plot
- Second Skin
- The Clouded Hills
- The Londoners
- The Parrot Cage
Which is your favourite?
Our newest Hero cover!
Daphne Wright’s The Parrot Cage tells the story of the Alderbrook sisters during the Second World War and their involvement with mysterious Russian, Peter Suvarov.
The new print-on-demand edition was published yesterday, and the ebook is only £1.99!
What do you think?
Daphne Wright is better known as as crime writer, N J Cooper - @njcooper_crime on twitter - and we’ve also republished her Willow King novels, written as Natasha Cooper.
This one is absolutely fantastic. The Bad Samaritan. Featuring a devil eating a pizza.
COVER LAUNCH!!
We’ve two newly designed covers for two great novels today:
The Clouded Hills by Brenda Jagger is the first book in the Barforth Family trilogy, perfect for anyone who loves Downton Abbey.
At sixteen Verity becomes sole heiress to a fortune founded on the wool mills of Yorkshire and realises for the first time that she is no more than a pawn in the games of ambitious men. Obedient to the conventions of the Victorian age, she accepts a marriage of convenience and cloaks her proud spirit in the silks and satins of a society hostess. But for Verity Barforth convention is not enough. When at last she falls in love it is not with her husband, and she becomes the centre of a powerful drama of infidelity, jealousy and revenge, played out against the magnificent landscapes of the Yorkshire moors and the brutal poverty of the mills.
Alongside this is An Impossible Marriage, Pamela Hansford Johnson’s story of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly:
Living out her bright, happy teenage years in south-west London, Christine’s principal worries are that her dazzling best friend Iris Allbright might steal her new beau, or the admonitions of her manager Mr Baynard if she’s late from her lunch break. But when Chris is suddenly whisked off her feet by the mysterious – and much older – Ned Skelton, life changes for Christine almost overnight.
What do you think? Which is your favourite?
Two Josephine Bell titles today, re-released last week.
Nefarious goings on on a tropical island in Andrew Garve’s No Mask For Murder. Or, as this cover tells you, ‘Exciting Crime Novel in Tropical Setting’, featuring a man who appears to be using the traditional ‘finger-as-gun’ threat.
Two covers for The Case of Robert Quarry. I get the impression that a body in a car boot has some significance in this mystery!
Two covers for the same book today. Hardback on the left, paperback on the right. Which do you prefer? Prescription For Murder is another Mark Treasure mystery from David Williams.
I’m rather partial to the paperback edition myself.
Love this cover for A Press of Suspects. The front cover design looks more like it’s a story of robots rather than reporters - they rather remind me of the cylons from Battlestar Galactica!
On the back is a very busy advert for watches from Bravingtons, who seem to have been based just around the corner from the Bello offices!
More classic Andrew Garve. This cover actually provides a clue to the plot, but telling you would be spoiling, and I don’t want to give the game away!
This is real 1970s hair. The type of hair that refuses to be ignored. Andrew Garve’s The Sea Monks, thank you for providing us with this hair.
We think this is a chess piece falling through water tinged with blood, but we’re not quite sure…
Francis Durbridge’s The Other Man.
Pamela Hansford Johnson was married to C P Snow, and in Important To Me she writes about a huge variety of topics from her views on literature, music and painting, opinions on politics and society, her childhood and youth and discusses Marcel Proust, the writer who was her greatest enthusiasm. She also describes her travels in the United States and Russia, portrays Edith Sitwell and gives an account of her close friendship with Dylan Thomas.
Ideal for dipping in and out of, or for an in depth read, this is a very personal book and definitely worth a read for anyone interested in 20th century literature and history.
