The Friday Face-Off: New Beginnings

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme: “New” beginnings.

Lynn said we can interpret this theme any way we like, so I chose to feature a book with the word “new” in the title. The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar came out way back in 1992, but I think I discovered it around 2006. I loved this quirky urban fantasy that is a perfect example of Martin Millar’s trademark humor. Here are the covers I found:

Soft Skull Press edition 2006 | U.S. Tor edition 2008 | Piatkus Books edition 2011

Italian edition 2004 | German edition 1998 | French edition 2016

Fourth Estate edition 1992 | Portuguese edition 2014 | Romanian edition 2008

Chinese edition 2010 | German edition (year?) | Russian edition 2007


Some of these are just weird? (The Chinese edition, what??) But I do love the quirkiness of a couple, especially the Fourth Estate edition. But my favorite has to be the French edition:

Which cover do you like best? Have you read this book?

Posted January 3, 2020 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 10 Comments

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10 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: New Beginnings

  1. I agree, I like the French cover. It has a great monochromatic look to it. And the fairies looking out at the city, sitting on the viewer, that’s fantastic. It gives a very particular feeling to it.

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