Nick Page

I’m just reading a dauntingly large book on the historical Jesus. Although, when I picked it up it proved to be not quite as daunting as it first appeared. Of the 868 pages in the book, only 393 are the actual narrative: the rest is the other apparatus- indices, notes, bibliography, etc. It’s very good, [...]

I came across this blurb the other day. It’s not perhaps the most positive start to a sales pitch: ‘This book represents a radical new departure for Jürgen Moltmann, not least in the lucidity of its writing.’ In other words, for the first time you might actually understand one of his books. One gets the [...]

Just got an advance copy of the new One Stop Bible Atlas that I created for Lion. Here’s the blurb: An entirely new kind of Bible atlas, including: A wide range of contemporary mapping styles the latest archaeological and historical research lively text packed with useful information over 170 full-colour maps, photos and illustrations All [...]

Quench Bookshop invites you to an exciting Book Evening with Nick Page Books by Nick Page include The Tabloid Bible, Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant, The Big Story and The Longest Week. His latest book The One-Stop Bible Atlas is published in July by Lion Publishing Tuesday 15th June 2010 at 8.00pm [...]

Andrew Motion has been signed up to write a follow-up to Treasure Island. The Grauniad points out that ‘The poet is not the first author to write a continuation of a classic children’s title’; actually he’s not even the first author to write a sequel to Treasure Island. The first one was H. A. Calahan [...]

After the Penguin versions of the Harry Potter books, here are a couple of other sites that are worth looking at: I Can Read Movies reimagines moves as paperbacks from c.1968. While Videogame Classics applies the penguin style covers to… er… videogames.

There’s a good story here of the development of Haystacks, a piece of software which was used to smuggle information out of Iran, by hiding it in other processes. It’s info-smuggling if you like. I’m writing about the seventeenth-century version of info-smuggling at the moment. I’m working on a history of the Bible, and one [...]

Here’s a great thing: Harry Potter books reimagined as old-style penguins. There’s a great flickr set of classic Penguin covers here. What I like about the Penguin covers of this period is they work fantastically, but in a very limited range of colours and set in a pretty rigid grid. My favourite penguin covers, however, [...]

In April 1982, I bought a book in the University of Warwick’s bookshop. It was called Debts of Honour and it was written by Michael Foot, then leader of the Labour Party. I’ve just retrieved it from the shelf. It’s a collection of essays about Foot’s heroes – from his father Isaac Foot, to the [...]

I’m a sucker for fully-realised fantasy worlds. One of my favourite books is Islandia, an obscure, hyper-detailed creation of a pre-industrial society with its traditions, language, literature – like a cross between Tolkein and William Morris. Islandia comes, as you’d expect, with maps. It seems to me that the first rule of any proper imaginary [...]