Jessa Crispin of Bookslut has a nice catch on book covers for the American and U.K. markets with a comparison of the latest from David Mitchell and Colm Tóibín.
Kim at Reading Matters posts a similar comparison of the covers of Nicholas Rinaldi's Between Two Rivers.
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