Book Cover initial designs

From looking at a range of different research i have started to come up with my own design ideas for the covers. Using contemporary colours and interesting shapes, My initial feedback from this is that i have to make the designs more relevant to the story, therefore keeping the same style but with more meaning. I decided to look further into the story lines for each book and looked at ways to edit my designs. Below i have started looking at 'Kipps' and the idea of climbing the social ladder! I am trying to make the designs more self explicit like James Joyce's work