It's Got The Look, Even If It Is A Bit Rough Around The Edges

A well-designed book doesn't just look enticing these days. It also has to feel good. Everyone who picks up a hardcover edition of My Life as a Fake, by Peter Carey, is compelled to stroke the corrugated dust jacket and riffle the rough-edged pages. The designer, Jenny Grigg, has won the annual publishers' awards for best-designed book of the year and best-designed literary fiction, for "an outstanding package" that mixes historic photographs with contemporary hot pink highlights. Grigg, 36, was ...