In The Tenth Muse, by Catherine Chung, aged renowned mathematician Katherine, who’s on the precipice of a new mathematical discovery, muses over the details of her fascinating life. A woman of profound inner strength, she surmounts professional obstacles, betrayals, and treks the entire world to solve her own personal mystery.

After a brilliant experience working on the Virago Modern Classics 40th Anniversary Series, It was a pleasure to work again with the amazing design department at Little, Brown, this time with Art Director Bekki Guyatt.

The brief was to feature large type on the cover with a fluid background pattern inspired by the Riemann Hypothesis. I found some similarities to my work in the intricate, curved, ornate nature of the different diagrams and I had already been experimenting with dotted fractals so everything slotted easily into place.