The cover of my next book Running with Pirates has been released. It bears an evocative design by Lisa White, who has also created book covers for titles by authors such as Craig Silvey, Pip Williams, and Kate Moreton.
For me, the cover of Running with Pirates responds sympathetically and joyfully to the book's themes of adventure and reflection, its setting of Greece, and to a certain playfulness that comes with one of the storylines: in the fable-like qualities of the ocean as a pattern, a texture of the past and of remembering, and of ships, too. As well as the very particular nature of storytelling for one's children.
It's also graced with a very generous cover endorsement by fellow author Susan Johnson, who writes of the book: Hearthbreaking, joyful, tender. The full catastrophe: Greece and life, in all its pain and glory.
The book itself will be released on 30 July this year.
