ALT The cover of Canaries by Alex Makepeace. Based on a photo by Sid Ali. Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster) is shown from Bridge Street through a rain-soaked window, with other traffic on the road. The name CANARIES is written in distressed black letters vertically in parallel with the tower, and the author’s name is written across the bottom of the cover in white. A quote is included from Trevor Wood saying “Brilliant, compelling, unsettling.”

ALT Cover image of Body and Soul by Andrew Hook, artwork and cover design by Alex Storer. Two small silhouetted figures (one male and the other female) are in the foreground standing on grass at the edge of what is obviously the ruins of a city. Most of the buildings are in ruins and the walls are covered in greenery. Water is running through the middle of the image (from front to back) as if a river has invaded the city streets. The sky is orange with a few dark clouds, but there is a bright light in the sky which is clearly the sun emerging from behind one of the clouds. To the right the words BODY AND SOUL are written up the side of the image, as is ANDREW HOOK.

ALT Our tables at World FantasyCon covered with books to sell

ALT Cover image of Body and Soul by Andrew Hook, artwork and cover design by Alex Storer. Two small silhouetted figures (one male and the other female) are in the foreground standing on grass at the edge of what is obviously the ruins of a city. Most of the buildings are in ruins and the walls are covered in greenery. Water is running through the middle of the image (from front to back) as if a river has invaded the city streets. The sky is orange with a few dark clouds, but there is a bright light in the sky which is clearly the sun emerging from behind one of the clouds. To the right the words BODY AND SOUL are written up the side of the image, as is ANDREW HOOK.

ALT Cover image of The Witch’s Journey by Keith Miller. Artwork by Simon Koontz. A girl with wild read hair blowing sideways in the wind is standing in front of a river which is also being whipped up by the wind. behind, the other side of the river is a silhouette of a city. the girl has pale skin, green-blue eyes and is holding a golden key to her breast in her right hand. The key has a quatrefoil design cut out of the bow. the title is above the girl in cursive capitals in a light grey-green colour. The author’s name is at the bottom of the cover below the girl’s hand in the same typeface and colour. A quote is included on the cover in white text: “A book to savor… I adored it.” attributed to Alix E. Harrow.

ALT Cover image of The Mage Returns: The Continuing Adventures of a Gnome by P.R.Ellis, envisaged by the author and created by Alison Buck. Against a dark night sky, with stars visible, a large image of a full moon apparently rising out of the sea dominates the cover. The foreground consists of the view from the prow of a boat, evidently headed towards the moon, with Philobrach the Gnome and Bones the skeleton standing looking at the moon, so we can only see their backs, the gnome wearing a conical red hat and a red jacket with a yellow collar; his ears are sticking out from under the hat along with a hint of grey hair and beard. Near the top of the moon is what appears to be a doorway with a figure standing in the opening, dressed in a long white gown. A ladder hangs down the front of the moon from the doorway to the surface of the sea.

ALT Cover image of The Order of the British Vampire by Simon Kewin; artwork by Alison Buck. A mostly black and white image, the top third of the image being a white background with the book title in black. The bottom two thirds has a black background, with a set of vampire upper teeth forming the boundary between the black and white areas. The author’s name is in white at the bottom. The two fangs are elongated, and each has a tinge of red blood on the tip, with a drop of blood having fallen to form a dot above the letter ‘I’ in the author’s name.

ALT Cover image of Star Pyramid by Ian Stewart. Cover art by Alex Storer. A stretched pyramid-shaped spaceship is heading into deep space towards a distant star. There are five engines on the square base of the spaceship, all alight with blue exhaust plumes. the surfaces of the spaceship are covered with antenna and other pieces of equipment making it seem quite prickly. The Title Star Pyramid is written in white at the top, the author’s name Ian Stewart is written in orange at the bottom. In both title and author, the letter A is represented like an inverted V.

ALT The cover of Canaries by Alex Makepeace. Based on a photo by Sid Ali. Big Ben (the Elizabeth Tower of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster) is shown from Bridge Street through a rain-soaked window, with other traffic on the road. The name CANARIES is written in distressed black letters vertically in parallel with the tower, and the author’s name is written across the bottom of the cover in white. A quote is included from Trevor Wood saying “Brilliant, compelling, unsettling.”

ALT The cover of Retrovival, designed by Tenebrae. Blood red background with the faint image of a centurion’s head in a plumed helmet, overlaid with a fainter outline of the plan of an amphitheatre, and on top of that a clock face with Roman numerals. The title Retrovival incorporates two arrows, one rising from the letter t and the other descending from the letter l.

ALT Four images: Terry Jackman and the covers of the first three books of the Worlds Apart collective – all space images of planets set against a star field or nebulae.