So we’ve settled on a final cover for my next novel, Smokeheads, published by Faber and Faber on March 3rd 2011. Here it is:

Whatcha think? I’m liking it. The proofs were plain, then we had flames, which was a bit flamey, now we’ve got glowing embers around the edge, which does the job, I think. Also a very nice quote from Chris Brookmyre on the front cover. That’ll do, eh?

Can you judge a book by its cover? Yeah, probably.