Nick Page

Further to the post below, I found a bit more optimism in Kenya than I was expecting. Sure, there is still a lot of graft, and the roads certainly haven’t improved any, but the people I spoke to believed that things were improving, albeit at a slow pace. One thing that didn’t improve was Kenya [...]

I’m off to Kenya tomorrow for a meeting. I haven’t been there since 2003 in the aftermath of the election. Then Nairobi was buzzing; Daniel arap Moi had gone and his party thrown out, there was a new president and everyone had high hopes. Those hopes have had a tough time since, with numerous accusations [...]

I only caught the BBC’s excellent series on Ancient Rome last week, although I meant to watch earlier episodes. Last week’s excellent episode was about Josephus, Titus and the Fall of the Temple in Jerusalem and it bought the full magnitude of this disaster to life. In my new book The Big Story, there’s a [...]

I’m just trying out the new astore feature from Amazon. Basically it allows you to customise a front end for your own Amazon store. It’s basically so you can buy my books more easily… Anyway, visit the Old Rope Store here Or you can visit the books page and purchase them from there. Or you [...]

There’s a story in the Times about a vicar who has been caught posting glowing reviews of his own services on the Ship of Fools Mystery Worshipper webpage. I feel for the guy, because it’s incredibly tempting to review your own work positively. I have often felt tempted to review my own books on Amazon, [...]

I’ve been working on the Star Wards project run by my friend Marion Janner. There’s a good report on the launch of the project in the Grauniad today. You can find out about the project – which aims to improve acute mental health wards at the Star Wards website.

Good news for all you Anglo-Saxon battle re-enactment fans: this year’s battle of Hastings looks to be the biggest yet. I’ve never quite understood the desire to dress up in a costume, pretend to fight and roll around in mud, but a lot of people must enjoy it — [this year's re-enactment of the Battle [...]

Just getting to the final edit in my new book, The Big Story. I hate this bit. Because it’s all about mistakes. This bit is all about punctuation and spelling and references that don’t make sense and editors asking you ‘what did you mean by this sentence?’ (And of course you can’t remember what you [...]