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Bantock, Nick was born in 1949.
(Alexandria will continue to delight the 3 million readers...)
Alexandria will continue to delight the 3 million readers who fell in love with the epistolary romance of Griffin & Sabine. Awash with gorgeous artwork, the mystery of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem now entwines Matthew Sedon, an archaeologist steeped in Egyptian antiquity, and Isabella de Reims, a student in Paris whose vision holds the key to a new reality. Intrigue turns to danger and romance turns to passion as Matthew and Isabella struggle to make sense of a world-and feelings-beyond experience. Only the guidance of Griffin and Sabine, expert navigators of myth and reality, can keep them safe. Author and artist Nick Bantock brings a new sensuality and romance to his vivid dreamscapes and unique visual perspective. Alexandria is a breathtaking new chapter in a saga that has captured hearts, minds, and imaginations the world over. Visit griffinandsabine.com!
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The mystery that began with a single enigmatic postcard reaches its dramatic conclusion in The Morning Star. Three million readers the world over await this last chapter of the best-selling Griffin & Sabine series, a volume of gorgeous artwork and passionate correspondence that crosses oceans and transcends realms. In these sumptuous pages lies not only the fate of Matthew Sedon and Isabella de Reims, but that of their unexpected kinship with Griffin and Sabine, as the long-distance lovers are drawn ever further from the safe haven of logic into a magical maze beyond the certainty of experience. Author and artist Nick Bantock draws on myth, memory, and his limitless imagination in a saga that has resonated with readers and lovers everywhere. The Morning Star marks the final destination on a journey across fabled landscapes and the uncertain terrain of the human heart-one to be savored and remembered long after the last page is turned. Visit griffinandsabine.com!
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(A walrus and a carpenter encounter some oysters during th...)
A walrus and a carpenter encounter some oysters during their walk on the beach--an unfortunate meeting for the oysters.
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Magnificently grotesque pop-up illustrations adorn a sardonic retelling of a Mother Goose nursery rhyme in which Solomon Grundy's six-day life takes a complete downward spiral.
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Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right -- the wine glass has more impact than the cup. --Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.
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Pop-up faces of Robin Hood, Little John, Marion, Friar Tuck, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and King Richard illustrate this rhyming story of the outlaw known as Master Hood.
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(An easy-to-follow text filled with surprising animal fact...)
An easy-to-follow text filled with surprising animal facts, pop-ups, and pull-tabs explore how animals, from caterpillars to humans, walk, crawl, wiggle, and otherwise get along.
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Griffin—Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me, then I will come to you. —Sabine Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness. But she threatens to become embodied, to appear on his doorstep, in fact. So he runs. Griffin & Sabine, the most creative and talked-about bestseller of 1991, left readers on the edge of a precipice. With Sabine's Notebook, they begin—along with Griffin—the fall. Once again, the story is told through strangely beautiful postcards and richly decorated letters that must actually be pulled from their envelopes to be read. But this volume is also a sketchbook and diary kept by the possibly unreal Sabine, who is living in Griffin's house in London while he wanders through Europe, North Africa, and Asia, backwards through layers of ancient civilizations—and of himself. Filled with her delicately macabre drawings and notations, the notebook adds a darker element of visual intrigue to their complex and mysterious world. For the thousands who finished Griffin & Sabine and asked, "What happened next?," this second volume in the trilogy provides the answers—but raises new and even more haunting questions of its own.
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(Lovers Griffin and Sabine find their passion tested by ne...)
Lovers Griffin and Sabine find their passion tested by new obstacles, including a mysterious intruder.
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(Sabine -- I was sure I understood. Yet you were not here ...)
Sabine -- I was sure I understood. Yet you were not here when I returned and there was no sign that you ever had been here.... Today comes your card saying you were in this house for three days after my return. I am bewildered. I need you badly. -- Griffin In this final volume of the phenomenal, best-selling trilogy begun with Griffin & Sabine and continued in Sabine's Notebook, the mystery of the two artists deepens, their questions grow more urgent. New obstacles (including a sinister intruder) test the tenacity of their passion, and in each letter or postcard, painting and prose are even more richly intertwined. Destined to be the most sought after novel of the year, The Golden Mean builds toward a powerful conclusion that will satisfy the millions of readers already entranced by the spirited, imaginative, enigmatic union of Griffin and Sabine. With over 50 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and one million copies in print, the first two volumes of this unique trilogy have captured the imagination of readers and reviewers across the country.
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(In this picture-cum-puzzle book, every picture is full of...)
In this picture-cum-puzzle book, every picture is full of clues which are designed to lead to the whereabouts of Hamilton Hasp, an eccentric millionaire who has disappeared. The drawers of his Egyptian jukebox each contain objects from a specific geographical location and have a corresponding story from Hasp's life. Nick Bantock also wrote "Griffin and Sabine", "Sabine's Notebook" and "The Golden Mean".
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(Imbued with all the magic and mystery of the Griffin & Sa...)
Imbued with all the magic and mystery of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy, this handsomely designed address book incorporates Nick bantock's exquisite artwork and writing and will reawaken in all of us the excitement and wonder of meaningful correspondence. Visit griffinandsabine.com!
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Bantock, Nick was born in 1949.
Bantock attended schools in the northeast suburbs of London, and later an art college in Maidstone, Kent.
His books are published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books in the United States. He began a career as a freelance artist at the age of 23, producing 300 book covers in the ensuing 16 years. In 1988 he moved to Vancouver, and soon after to the nearby Bowen Island, where he had the idea that became the Griffin and Sabine series.
In 2006, he adapted the Griffin and Sabine series into a play, also called "Griffin and Sabine", which premiered in Vancouver at the Granville Island Stage and ran from October 5-November 4, 2006.
In 2007, he resumed painting full-time, and opened a studio-gallery, "The Forgetting Room", on Saltspring Island. The Morning Star Trilogy
The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine is Rediscovered (2001)
Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Unfolds (2002)
The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine is Illuminated (2003)
The Pharos Gate: Griffin and Sabine"s Missing Correspondence (2016)
The Egyptian Jukebox (1993)
Averse to Beasts (1994)
The Venetian"s Wife (1996)
Paris Out of Hand (1996) - with Karen Elizabeth Gordon and Barbara Hodgson
Capolan ArtBox (1997)
The Forgetting Room (1997)
The Museum at Purgatory (1999)
The Artful Dodger: Images and Reflections (2000) - a visual autobiography, and retrospective
Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera (2004)
Windflower (2006) - with Edoardo Ponti
The Trickster"s Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity (2014)
Popup books
There Was An Old Lady (1990)
Wings (1990)
Jabberwocky (1991)
Runners, Sliders, Bouncers, Climbers (1992)
Solomon Grundy (1992)
The Walrus and the Carpenter (1992)
Kubla Khan (1993)
Robin Hood (1993).
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(Based on Nick Bantock's wildly successful "Griffin and Sa...)
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(In this picture-cum-puzzle book, every picture is full of...)
(Pop-up faces of Robin Hood, Little John, Marion, Friar Tu...)
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Married Kim Kasasian. Children: Paul, Kate, Ruth, Holly.