Emily Maddock Khan

@emilymaddockkhan.bsky.social

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Head of Student Journey at DMU | Trustee & Fellow of AHEP | DBA candidate at Uni of Bath | Editorial board member of @perspectiveshe.bsky.social | Northerner Research: HE management, social justice, postcolonialism 🏳️‍🌈 she/her ST holder @DRFC

The front cover of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, depicting a black and white, slightly sepia tone, image of a woman in 1920s clothing sitting back in a chair and a man in a dark suit sat with his back to us, leaning into her. He is holding a short glass, presumably of alcohol, on the table between them. Also on the table is an ashtray with two lit cigarettes balanced on the side and a cigarette or tobacco tin.
The front cover of the book ‘I Am Legend’ by Richard Matheson. It is dark blue-grey tones, with skeletal and near skeletal faces facing forwards, the front face has its mouth open and pointy vampire-like teeth showing and no eyeballs, just bloody socket. Its hands are outstretched like it’s going to grab you.
The front cover of the book Hiroshima by John Hersey. There is a pale yellow background, and on top of that, an image of a setting red sun behind a bridge with water running through it with the red light reflected in it.
The front cover of the Jennifer Johnston book Shadows on Our Skin; it shows a blurred child on a bike at the top of the image, under a green light which casts over the whole image, and the child’s shadow reaches the bottom of the image.
The from cover of Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. The cover is mostly dark yellow with two dark red squares, one of which seems to depict the protagonist, Okonkwo; he is a black man wearing a Nigerian cap.
The front cover of the Shirley Jackson gothic novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It shows the two protagonists, sisters Merricat and Constance towards the front of the image, Merricat is holding a black cat. The towns people are behind them, looking at them in shock or indifference.