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Nick Bantock Books in Order

Nick Bantock has written 25 books, published between 1990 and 2023. The first book is There Was An Old Lady (1990) and the newest is The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
25
Published
1990–2023
Pages on record
1,343 in 15 of 25 books
Reading time
22–34 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,343 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 25 titles with a page count on record.

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Nick Bantock is a British artist and author based on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. The Griffin and Sabine books are his best known work, assembled from faux postage stamps, handwritten documents, passports and postcards bound into the page. Bantock's catalogue holds 25 titles, from There Was An Old Lady (1990) to The Corset & The Jellyfish (2023), taking in The Egyptian Jukebox (1993) and The Golden Mean (1993). Subjects cover imaginary letters, movable books, collage and picture books, at a median of 60 pages.

How many Nick Bantock books are there?

Nick Bantock has 25 books, released between 1990 and 2023. They include 2 series and 18 titles listed outside any series.

Nick Bantock Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 25 Nick Bantock books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock, book 1 of the Griffin & Sabine series (1991)
  2. Cover of Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantock, book 2 of the Griffin & Sabine series (1992)
  3. Cover of The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum by Nick Bantock (1993)
  4. Cover of The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock, book 3 of the Griffin & Sabine series (1993)
  5. Cover of The Venetian's Wife by Nick Bantock (1996)
  6. Cover of Capolan by Nick Bantock (1997)
  7. Cover of The Forgetting Room: A Fiction by Nick Bantock (1997)
  8. Cover of The Museum at Purgatory by Nick Bantock (1999)
  9. Cover of The Artful Dodger by Nick Bantock (2000)
  10. Cover of The Gryphon by Nick Bantock, book 1 of the Griffin & Sabine: Morning Star series (2001)
  11. Cover of Alexandria by Nick Bantock, book 2 of the Griffin & Sabine: Morning Star series (2002)
  12. Cover of The Morning Star by Nick Bantock, book 3 of the Griffin & Sabine: Morning Star series (2003)
  13. Cover of Urgent 2nd Class by Nick Bantock (2004)
  14. Cover of Windflower by Nick Bantock (2006)
  15. Cover of The Trickster's Hat by Nick Bantock (2014)
  16. Cover of The Pharos Gate by Nick Bantock, book 4 of the Griffin & Sabine series (2016)
  17. Cover of The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles by Nick Bantock (2023)
  1. 1
    There Was An Old Lady1990 · 12 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199012
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  2. 2
    Wings1990 · confirmed 2/4
    1990–
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  3. 3
    Griffin and SabineGriffin & Sabine #11991 · 46 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199146
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  4. 4
    Sabine's NotebookGriffin & Sabine #21992 · confirmed 2/4
    1992–
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  5. 5
    Runners, Sliders, Bouncers, Climbers1992 · confirmed 2/4
    1992–
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  6. 6
    Solomon Grundy1992 · 12 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199212
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  7. 7
    The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum1993 · confirmed 2/4
    1993–
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  8. 8
    The Golden MeanGriffin & Sabine #31993 · confirmed 2/4
    1993–
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  9. 9
    Robin Hood1993 · 12 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199312
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  10. 10
    Kubla Khan1994 · confirmed 2/4
    1994–
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  11. 11
    The Venetian's Wife1996 · 131 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996131
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  12. 12
    Capolan1997 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199748
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  13. 13
    The Forgetting Room: A Fiction1997 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997112
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  14. 14
    The Museum at Purgatory1999 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999128
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  15. 15
    The Artful Dodger2000 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000224
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  16. 16
    The GryphonGriffin & Sabine: Morning Star #12001 · confirmed 2/4
    2001–
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  17. 17
    AlexandriaGriffin & Sabine: Morning Star #22002 · confirmed 2/4
    2002–
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  18. 18
    The Morning StarGriffin & Sabine: Morning Star #32003 · confirmed 2/4
    2003–
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  19. 19
    Urgent 2nd Class2004 · 115 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004115
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  20. 20
    Windflower2006 · 215 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006215
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  21. 21
    The Trickster's Hat2014 · 194 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014194
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  22. 22
    The Pharos GateGriffin & Sabine #42016 · 60 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201660
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  23. 23
    My Foolish Heart2017 · 18 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201718
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  24. 24
    Dubious Documents2018 · 16 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201816
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  25. 25
    The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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Nick Bantock series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Nick Bantock books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Griffin & Sabine: Morning Star in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Gryphon
  2. 2. Alexandria
  3. 3. The Morning Star

Standalone books

18 books

18 Nick Bantock titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Nick Bantock books in order?

You only need to read Nick Bantock books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Nick Bantock

Start with Griffin and Sabine (1991), the first Griffin & Sabine book. The earliest catalogued title overall is There Was An Old Lady (1990).

What is the newest Nick Bantock book?

The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles (2023) is the newest Nick Bantock book released so far.

Is there a new Nick Bantock book coming?

No next Nick Bantock book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Nick Bantock at a glance

Paused
No new Nick Bantock title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Nick Bantock books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,343 pages across the 15 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 60 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nick Bantock books, 14 of 25, were published in the 1990s.

What the Nick Bantock books are about

24 of the 25 Nick Bantock books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: specimens is tagged on 12 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Specimens 12 of 24 books
  • Toy and movable books 12 of 24 books
  • Imaginary letters 7 of 24 books
  • Artists 4 of 24 books
  • Lettres fictives 4 of 24 books
  • Picture books 4 of 24 books
  • Livres-jeux 3 of 24 books
  • Archaeologists 2 of 24 books
  • Collage 2 of 24 books
  • Fantasy 2 of 24 books
  • Griffin (fictitious character : bantock) 2 of 24 books
  • Juvenile literature 2 of 24 books