What are some beautiful paperbacks?

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AlpacaTheBags · 05/01/2022 19:39

I want to treat myself to some attractive paperback books, perhaps classics or modern classics but I'm open to anything. Due to disabilities paperbacks are more practical for me than hardbacks.

Are there any particular publishers or even individual books that you'd recommend? TIA

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Doobydoo · 05/01/2022 20:04

I do love the Penguin ones..the blue,green,orange covers...classics.

highlandcoo · 05/01/2022 20:02

oops stray apostrophe there

highlandcoo · 05/01/2022 20:01

Cross-posted about Persephone and also got distracted mid-post by looking through my bookshelves

I meant to add, they are a small publisher's and you could give them a ring and ask which of their books have the pretty covers rather than the grey. I used to call in in person when I worked round the corner and they were always rather posh and very helpful.

highlandcoo · 05/01/2022 19:57

Have a look at Persephone books OP. They specialise in finding neglected women authors and republishing them. Many of them are in plain grey covers with beautiful old wallpaper designs on the inside of the covers, however they do have some with paintings on the covers, Mariana by Monica Dickens being one.

Otherwise, books on my own shelves with lovely covers are:

Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Sharak
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Razor's Edge and The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham (both Vintage classics)

And a hardback as it's a recent publication, but very small and light so might be OK for you:

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

I appreciate a beautiful cover myself and I'm pleased that this is becoming more of a thing.

fernsandlilies · 05/01/2022 19:48

Persephone books.

Reprints of women writers, many of them forgotten, in their trademark dove grey covers with endpapers taken from contemporary prints.

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