The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. Here are some of the award categories. The full shortlist is available on the APA website.

Best Designed Cover of the Year

The Art of Pasta(Lucio Galletto, Lantern) designed by Daniel New	MoVida Cocina: Spanish Flavours from Five Kitchens (Frank Camorra & Rochard Cornish, Murdoch) designed by Reuben Crossman	August (Bernard Beckett, Text) cover design by WH Chong and internal design by Susan Miller

 

Best Designed Children’s Cover of the Year

Alaska (Sue Saliba, Penguin) designed by Allison Colpoys	August (Bernard Beckett, Text) cover design by WH Chong and internal design by Susan Miller	Ben & Duck (Sara Acton, Scholastic) designed by Nicole Leary
Drawing Life for Kids: My Art Journal (Queensland Art Gallery Children’s Art Centre, Queensland Art Gallery) designed by Sally Nall	Star League 1: Lights, Camera, Action Hero! (Random House, H J Harper) cover design by Nahum Ziersch and internal design by Astred Hicks, Design Cherry

 

Best Designed Fiction Book

The Colour of Tea (Hannah Tunnicliffe, Pan Macmillan) cover design by Emily O’Neill, internal design by Post Pre-Press Group	Love in the Years of Lunacy (Mandy Sayer, A&U) design by Emily O’Neill	Last Summer (Kylie Ladd, A&U) design by Natalie Winter

 

Best Designed Literary Fiction Book

Life Kills (Miles Vertigan, Sleepers Publishing) cover design by Miriam Rosenbloom, internal design by Zoe Dattner	Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate) design by Natalie Winter	Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U) cover design by Sandy Cull & gogoGingko, internal design by Yolande Gray & Sandy Cull
Pepsi Bears and Other Stories (Anson Cameron,  Radom House) design by Committee, internal design by Post Pre-Press.	The Life (Malcolm Knox, A&U) cover design by Emily O’Neill, internal design by Phil Campbell

 

Best Designed Nonfiction Book

Meanjin Vol 70, No 4 (ed by Sally Heath, MUP) design by Jenny Grigg	Hiroshima Nagasaki (Paul Ham, HarperCollins) cover design by Matt Stanton, internal design by HarperCollins Design Studio	Good Living Street (Tim Bonyhady, A&U) design by Emily O’Neill
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings (Peter Corris, NewSouth) cover design by Sandy Cull, internal design by Di Quick	Hung Like an Argentine Duck (John Long, HarperCollins) cover design by Natalie Winter, internal design by HarperCollins Design Studio	The Casuals (Sally Breen, HarperCollins) design by Natalie Winter

 

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