A story well told is bound to create a more lasting impression than many academic papers combined. It gets even better when the story about a particular manuscript is told by a true expert who knows his facts, is one of the undisputed leaders of the field, and is a participant and eye-witness of the recounted story. In this handsomely produced book David Parker tells the story of the fourth-century Codex Sinaiticus through the lens of the recent digitisation project instigated by the British Library. As is well known, the Codex Sinaiticus, which originally contained the whole Greek Bible, is the oldest surviving complete New Testament. Parker starts by telling some of the most salient stories about the Christian Scriptures from the first four centuries: the court transcript of the interrogation concerning the confiscation of Bibles in Cirta, Constantine's order of fifty copies for Constantinople, and also the order filled by Athanasius some years later. Commenting on the contents of Sinaiticus, Parker describes the composition history of many of the Old Testament books found in it as akin to that of a Wikipedia article, and also how a decision had to be made about what to include in a ‘complete Bible’ of the Old and New Testament. The reader is introduced to the technical aspects of preparing and writing a long text, to the actual scribes of the codex, its correctors, and some of the more substantial textual issues in the Greek Bible. The ‘modern history’ of the Codex Sinaiticus is a big advance on our previous knowledge. The story of the donation by St Catherine's monastery to the czar is one of mouth-watering diplomatic intrigue and complexity, and with the help of recently uncovered Russian diplomatic correspondence from the 1860s this story can now be told with much more clarity than ever before. Parker refers here to the ‘agreed account’ of the history of the manuscript as drawn up by the current holding institutions, St Catherine's, Leipzig University Library, the National Library in St Petersburg and the British Library. The history of this codex is rounded off with a description of the digitisation project and subsequent publication on the internet (www.codex-sinaiticus.net). With this excellent book, David Parker has not only provided both the general public and the academic community with an attractive and detailed account of the many things that we know about Codex Sinaiticus, he has also elevated academic story-telling into an art.