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Suzanne Dean

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The British Book Awards Designer of the Year 2023

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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland was brought brilliantly to life by Director-choreographer Philippe Decouflé, at the Barbican yesterday. Three hours flashed by as a dream. The Guardian were right when they rated this a 5 star performance. Its an incredible world of dancing unicorns, lost shadows, waterfalls and falling snow and in Japanese with sur-titles.

To top that off Murakami was in the auditorium in the row behind us. He then was on stage in the Cinema for a conversation session, where he read from A City with Uncertain Walls and answered questions about his writing. Pretty amazing afternoon! by @suzanneldean

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Photography at the Japan Centre London
Kawada Kikjui and Iwane Ai part of Kyotographie

#japanhouse #photography #kyotographie #london #exhibtion by @suzanneldean

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I’d forgotten quite what an extraordinary London gem the Sir John Soane’s Museum is … so many layers. We took some overseas visitors with us yesterday.

#sirjohnsoanesmuseum #london #collector #freelondon #secretgem by @suzanneldean

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I adore this bunny by the very talented Richard Ahnert. Thank you for letting us use your painting.
Do check out his instagram site for many more wonderful images.

Thank also to Lily Victoria for the hand lettering, perfect brush work as always.

Headless Yard by Hermione Eyre is a novel about a group of artists in the 90’s art scene in London, it will be published by Jonathan Cape in April 2027.

#headlessyard #jonathancape #newtitles #art #novels by @suzanneldean

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Inheritance is a novel about everything we inherit and everything we lose as we live our lives – and how we learn to hold on to all that is precious.

Adam has written an extraordinary novel and I am very proud to have design the cover for it. I particularly love the use of space and tight crop of the image. Happy to have this approved.

Published by Jonathan Cape, May 2027. Something to put in your diaries....

#adamthirlwell #jonathancape #vintage #newtitles #inheritance by @suzanneldean

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Professional shots of the new Murakami book, Abandoning a Cat,
A Personal Story.

Gorgeous illustrations by Seb Agresti ...also including old matchbox imagery.

An incredible job by the printers and Seb. I couldn't have done it without you! Some say even better than Super Frog - is that possible?

Published by Harvill on 20th October

#murakami #harvill #abandoningacatwhenitalkaboutmyfather #cat #matchbox by @suzanneldean

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Cortazar Vintage Classics looked stunning on the big screen. Think I must have been in the best spot to get these photos of Neasden Control Centre’s slides for his B&A talk. What a room! What a reflection in the polished floor!
#V&A #illustration #cortazar #vintageclassics #neasdencontrolcentre by @suzanneldean

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Celebrating the work of Neasden Control Centre at the V&A - winner of the Adult Fiction Illustration Award earlier this year.

Great display in the print gallery centre stage were the framed Cortazar Vintage classic editions. Then a talk by NCC about his process of creating his images. This included animations, installations, books and sketches. - inspiring!

#neasdencontrolcentre #v&a #illustrationawards #vintageclassics #process by @suzanneldean

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"everyone lies"

Part novel, part intimate confession - The Forces is raw, and at times darkly comic. Set in underground contemporary Paris, The Forces moves through city streets, family interiors, underground cults,
bars, screens and memories

'Unique, poetic, and radical'
Édouard Louis

thank you Lily Victoria for your brush work....

#theforces #chatto #newtitles #vintage by @suzanneldean

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Saranya Murthi's debut, Our Insides Live in Darkness is vivid and draws you in - such extraordinary writing. I wasn't surprised to learn that Saranya was the winner of the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award.

Atmospheric, unsettling and psychologically acute, Our Insides Live in Darkness is a startling coming-of-age novel exploring trauma, self-transformation, the enchantment of the natural world and the porous boundary between imagination and reality.

'My foot, swooping down on the grass. The shadow that fell on the centipede for a split second before it disappeared beneath my shoe. The sickening crunch. Lift. Down again. Again, and again. It ruptured like little balloons. The legs disconnected from its torso. Broken into pieces like the bangles.'

Illustration by another talent, Jasjyot Singh Hans. Thank you so much for being part of this project

#ourinsidesliveindarkness #newtitle #SaranyaMurthi #chatto #vintage by @suzanneldean

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Spotted this on the way into work this morning at Vauxhall. Charming
Made me smile
#smilingman #manatwirk #signage by @suzanneldean

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For the reader who never forgot Henry and Clare.

The Vintage collector’s edition of @aaniffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife is here, complete with marbled endpapers, gold foil and a ribbon marker made for returning to again and again.

Cover design by @suzanneldean. by @suzanneldean

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