The Eleventh Hour
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Cover Story
The illustration on our March cover is by Chris Riddell. It is taken from Philip Ridley's new book, Meteorite Spoon, published by Viking, to whom we're grateful for help in using this illustration. Details of the book are given in the Authorgraph.
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A visual banquet tells the tale of an edible banquet, while providing the reader's mind with a feat of enigmas. It's Horace's eleventh birthday, and he plans a feast for the eleventh hour, inviting along ten friends who play games until dinner time, when they discover that one of their number has surreptitiously hogged all the food. That's about it for the storyline, but the magnificently elaborate pictures which accompany the verse narrative conceal encoded clues identifying the thief. An appendix provides a key to unlock all these clues, but it should not be consulted until the reader has enjoyed a thorough search of the text. This is a beautiful and intriguing book, highly recommended for everybody.
