Nick Bantock Books in Order

Bantock turns the traditional rhyme about a woman swallowing a fly into a pop-up book. Successively larger animals enter the story, with moving paper illustrations bringing its absurd sequence and dark humor to life.

This illustrated pop-up book explores the mechanics of flight through birds, insects, and human examples. Moving paper constructions accompany explanations of how wings function, giving readers a visual introduction to different ways of becoming airborne.

London postcard designer Griffin Moss receives a letter from Sabine, a distant stamp illustrator who mysteriously knows his work. Their unfolding correspondence, presented through illustrated postcards and removable letters, becomes an enigmatic romance.

This pop-up book compares the many ways animals travel across land, from snakes sliding to kangaroos hopping. Paper constructions illustrate locomotion alongside descriptions, inviting readers to explore how different creatures move through their surroundings.

Griffin leaves England, unsettled by his mysterious connection with Sabine, and invites her to stay in his studio. Their illustrated correspondence continues across the world, deepening the questions surrounding their relationship and her elusive presence.

Bantock gives the traditional Solomon Grundy rhyme a darkly comic pop-up treatment. As the weather improves, Solomon's fortunes deteriorate, and three-dimensional paper illustrations follow the brief, increasingly unhappy course of his life.

Bored and alone in Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood entertains himself by dressing as his absent companions and adversaries. Bantock presents this playful variation on the legend through a miniature pop-up book with paper transformations.

The disappearance of eccentric millionaire Hamilton Hasp leaves a cabinet of ten drawers filled with unusual artifacts. Each illustrated assemblage carries a story and clues, inviting readers to unravel a mystery connecting ancient and modern worlds.

Griffin and Sabine struggle to understand why their attempts to meet keep failing, even when they seem to occupy the same place. Illustrated postcards and removable letters conclude the original trilogy's exploration of love and mystery.

Bantock interprets Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem through unfolding three-dimensional collages. This pop-up adaptation evokes Xanadu and its elaborate pleasure dome, using layered paper imagery to explore the poem's atmosphere of splendor and lost paradise.

A bored museum worker receives an anonymous offer to locate missing Indian sculptures from a Renaissance adventurer's collection. Communicating with her employer only by computer, she encounters an enigmatic manuscript and changes she cannot explain.

This illustrated artbox introduces Capolan, an imaginary nation of nomadic people, through a passport-sized book and commemorative postcards and stamps. Bantock invents its history, beliefs, customs, and traditions in a collection blending fantasy with travel memorabilia.

Armon Hurt travels to Spain intending to sell his late grandfather's house. A small painting and mysterious booklet draw him into a puzzle, awakening his creativity as he works in the old artist's studio.

Unable to remember his earthly life, Non becomes curator of a museum in Purgatory. Examining the collections of other departed artists and collectors, he searches for clues that might help him determine his own fate.

Bantock combines autobiographical recollections with hundreds of images tracing his development as an artist and bookmaker. Early work, cover illustrations, pop-up designs, and later paintings accompany reflections on the experiences behind his distinctive visual storytelling.

Sabine seeks help from archaeologist Matthew Sedon in Egypt, drawing him into the mystery surrounding her and Griffin. His girlfriend Isabella's waking visions introduce another layer of intrigue, conveyed through decorated postcards and letters.

Archaeologist Matthew Sedon and Paris student Isabella de Reims become increasingly entangled in Griffin and Sabine's mysterious world. Their illustrated correspondence follows growing danger, extraordinary visions, and a romance tested by forces beyond their understanding.

Isabella journeys toward Matthew in Egypt as their correspondence explores a world of mythology and uncertainty. With Griffin and Sabine's guidance, the lovers face questions about their connection in the final volume of the Morning Star trilogy.

Bantock offers a practical guide to creating art from old documents, maps, envelopes, postcards, and other paper remnants. His techniques encourage readers to alter found materials and combine imagined histories with the marks of time.

Dancer Ana flees an arranged marriage and travels toward Serona, seeking a man who may answer her questions. Encounters with four unusual men complicate her journey of self-discovery, accompanied by a continuous stream of collages.

Forty-nine exercises drawn from Bantock's creative workshops invite readers to experiment, wander, and approach art with humor. This illustrated guide emphasizes unexpected associations and playful detours as ways to explore and develop individual creativity.

Illustrated postcards and removable letters revisit Griffin and Sabine's search for one another. This later installment reveals more of their lost correspondence, extending the mysterious romance through doubts, dangerous influences, and the interplay of words and images.

Six familiar expressions about the heart become playful three-dimensional images in this small pop-up book. Bantock combines visual jokes and wordplay, turning phrases such as brave hearted and light hearted into unexpected paper constructions.

Magnus Berlin presents a mystery concealed within sixteen illustrated letters. Readers work through anagrams, visual clues, number puzzles, and wordplay, using the resulting words to assemble an answer with the help of a recording grid.

A mysterious package contains one hundred illustrated stories, each exactly one hundred words, and a cryptic note from an unknown sender. The strange tales and drawings invite readers to explore whether their connections conceal a larger puzzle or a missing piece.