Nick Owen Publishing (NOP)
Nottingham, UK
Date: 20 November 2025
Nick Owen Publishing Confirms Temporary Website Disruption Caused by Unauthorised Access is Now Over.
Nick Owen Publishing can confirm that, at approximately 08:10 on 20 November, the company’s website experienced an incident of unauthorised interference carried out by an individual styling himself online as “TRUTH4REFORM_88_HAXXOR.”
The intrusion briefly replaced the official NOP homepage with content that included inaccurate statements about the company, unsubstantiated claims concerning the book No Such Thing as an Englishman, and a number of remarks about the author’s poetry, delivery style and eyebrows.
While some of the comments were strikingly imaginative, they did not originate from anyone associated with NOP.
Key Facts
- No customer data has been compromised.
The attacker appears to have been primarily motivated by literary frustration rather than criminal intent. - The unauthorised content included a flaming-bin graphic, several Comic Sans headlines, and repeated warnings against purchasing NOP titles. These do not reflect the views of Nick Owen Publishing, our authors, or any known literary critics.
- The incident appears to have been carried out using extremely rudimentary methods and may have involved guessing a password. We are investigating how “NOP2023!” was breached.
Statement from Nick Owen, Founder
“While today’s events are certainly unusual, we remain committed to championing thoughtful, imaginative writing. We are grateful to our readers for their patience and assure them that No Such Thing as an Englishmanremains entirely safe to read, despite suggestions to the contrary from this morning’s intruder.”
Next Steps
Nick Owen Publishing is working with external security consultants to reinforce all digital systems.
Normal website service has been resumed..
Book sales, author events, and all other operations remain unaffected.
We thank our readers, partners, and the wider literary community for their continued support and for their many messages enquiring whether Nick is indeed “doing spells with his eyeballs.” We can confirm he is not.
Press Contact
Eleanor Wheeler
Senior Editor & Communications Lead
Nick Owen Publishing
Email: info@nickowenpublishing.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1522 687819
There’s No Such Thing as an Englishman
There’s No Such Thing as an Englishman is an anthology of poetry from an irritated England and marks the many sources of irritation faced by the average Englishman or woman these days – everything from the railways to referenda via what ever it is the young call music these days.
It was launched on 31 January 2020 – the day when the UK left the European Union and when the phenomenon known as Brexit finally, we liked to think, finally evaporated and all those years of frustration, anger, sheer disbelief and irritation all come to rest. But as Chairman Mao once said about what he thought the effects of the French Revolution were, it was way too soon to tell.
But its two authors – Nick Owen and Janice Owen – have become accomplished at becoming irritated at many facets of life in England over the years and hope that you, dear reader, will find some solace in knowing that you are not alone when it comes to feeling frustrated, pissed off, angry or just good old fashioned irritated.
Being English though, means we’ve just reached a level of irritation and aren’t quite ready to riot. Yet.
