July 3rd, 2012 at 12:23PM
Following from yesterday’s classic Roy Vickers’ Penguin cover comes another Roy Vickers Penguin cover, but a total contrast. Skulls, spirals and a man with an umbrella.

Following from yesterday’s classic Roy Vickers’ Penguin cover comes another Roy Vickers Penguin cover, but a total contrast. Skulls, spirals and a man with an umbrella.

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April 3rd, 2012 at 10:44AM
This cover is rather faded, but that just adds character (right…?).  It’s a Penguin edition for Pamela Hansford Johnson’s The Last Resort. And here’s the blurb! ‘I can’t live with guilt, and I have felt guilty enough to die …’ Writer Christine Hall’s own loving relationships and empathetic intelligence make her the perfect confidante for a group of friends: architect Eric Aveling – whose wife Lois is dying, Junius Evans, Aveling’s flamboyant business partner, and, above all, eccentric, impulsive Celia Baird. When death forces a realignment of relationships within the group even the perceptive Christine is not prepared for the final outcome. Moving between London and a south coast seaside town, The Last Resort is a sensitive and vividly human exploration of the hidden side of marriage, where dark undercurrents of duty, guilt, secrecy and loneliness can all play a part in deviating the course of love and influencing the choices that life thrusts upon us.

This cover is rather faded, but that just adds character (right…?).  It’s a Penguin edition for Pamela Hansford Johnson’s The Last Resort. And here’s the blurb!

‘I can’t live with guilt, and I have felt guilty enough to die …’

Writer Christine Hall’s own loving relationships and empathetic intelligence make her the perfect confidante for a group of friends: architect Eric Aveling – whose wife Lois is dying, Junius Evans, Aveling’s flamboyant business partner, and, above all, eccentric, impulsive Celia Baird. When death forces a realignment of relationships within the group even the perceptive Christine is not prepared for the final outcome.

Moving between London and a south coast seaside town, The Last Resort is a sensitive and vividly human exploration of the hidden side of marriage, where dark undercurrents of duty, guilt, secrecy and loneliness can all play a part in deviating the course of love and influencing the choices that life thrusts upon us.

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March 5th, 2012 at 9:50AM
Penguin paperback number 921 is our classic cover today, for An Avenue of Stone by Pamela Hansford Johnson.

Penguin paperback number 921 is our classic cover today, for An Avenue of Stone by Pamela Hansford Johnson.

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