Stephen Bickers

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UK Diplomat in Uganda (and previously Zambia). Posts are personal opinion - mostly about books, boardgames, travel, rugby and cricket. Please don’t expect many great insights.

The cover of Dunstan. A man on a horse on a snowy field.
The paperback cover of A London Safari.
Josh Kirby cover for the paperback edition of Men At Arms.
The cover of The Secret Listeners has two people listening to radio messages with the pyramids behind them.
The Normans Are Coming: The Truth About 1066 by Gillian Clements
Hardback cover of The Norman Achievement. Depicts the interior of a Norman chapel.
The cover is miniature figures on a white background. Most of the figures are painted entirely white, but 10% are painted red.
The cover depicts Odysseus tied to the mast of his ship whilst a siren flies past.
A view of the hills of Southern Uganda, taken from a viewpoint on the Zomba Plateau
The cover depicts Victoria Falls; but the events in the book don't take place anywhere near there.
The paperback cover of Cold Storage Alaska
The cover of If Morning Ever Comes
The paperback cover of Mossflower.
The Signet Classic paperback edition (from the 1960s).
The paperback cover has a painting by Banksy of an ass dressed like an angel.
In Morocco by Edith Wharton; modern paperback cover
The hardback cover depicts two boys on a rooftop looking out over a city.
This is the original UK paperback edition. It cost me 20p in a charity shop last year.
The paperback cover. Any similarities with the red shirt uniform in Star Trek is probably coincidence.
The paperback cover depicts a large sun (reminiscent of the Japanese flag). Silhouetted is a crashing plane and a dancing boy.
Hardback cover of The Telling
The hardback cover of South Pole Station. It shows a signpost embedded in ice, directions to Minneapolis, Kuwait City and other places.
Hardback cover of Binti. It shows a young woman with braided hair. This is also important in the story.
The paperback cover of Graveminders. It has a woman holding a lamp with her back to the reader.
The cover shows a giant walking above/through a forest.
The hardback cover depicts three young women (19 to 25).
Cover by Adrian Wiszniewski depicts two young men on a rubbish heap. One holds a piece of wood, the other is reading.
Inside Milan Cathedral. The sunlight is shining through stained glass windows on the left, and is being reflected of a stone pillar on the right.
This plain blue copy of Hurricane Season is rather battered. I think the weathering marks work quite well in depicting the tone of the book.
The Science Fiction Masterworks cover of Limbo by Bernard Wolfe.
The paperback cover of Watling Street
The hardback cover of Dirty Kitchen by Jill Damatac
The Penguin Modern Classics cover, designed by Stefanie Posavec
The Wordsworth Classics edition of The Man Who Would Be King.
Paperback cover of Time Shelter.
The paperback cover is a black and white photo of a rather scary looking clown holding a small poodle.
A view from a hill over looking Lake Bunyonyi. You can see some of the 29 islands of the lake.
The paperback cover of Nomads by Anthony Sattin
The paperback cover is very battered. This is a book that has been passed between many readers.
The paperback cover features an elephant standing on a red circle.
The 30th anniversary paperback cover of Mythago Wood
The Paperback cover has a large avocado (compared to the size of the squirrel).
Paperback cover of Counterfeit, designed by Yordanka Poleganova. Features a women with sunglasses; handbags are on the reflection from the lenses.
The paperback cover has a drawing of Alexander Obolensky playing rugby, and is done in the style of a 1930s cigarette card.
The paperback cover depicts the England team celebrating their victory by doing the sprinkler dance.
A very paperback copy of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. It's from the 1960s.
Chronicle of the 20th century. A massive encyclopedia of events from 1900 to the 1990s.
The paperback cover of Julia by Sandra Newman.
The paperback cover of An American Decade by Richard Aronowitz.
The paperback cover of Men of Men by Wilbur Smith. It features a very manly man with a rifle.
The view of Cape Town from the top of Lions Head. A remarkably clear day, with no clouds on Table Mountain.
The paperback cover of Defectors by Joseph Kanon
The more recent paperback cover of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. It has a Netflix series label, which presumably makes it easy to date.
The paperback cover of The Gunny Sack.
Cover photograph of a Nasser Road poster printer taken by Katumba Badru Sultan