A puzzling journey through the Royal Mail Open this book, and you will discover a most curious and diverting collection of decorated envelopes, all of which have been sent through the Royal Mail system. In Envelopes, Harriet Russell has created a wealth of different ways of communicating an address: mazes, join-the-dots, anagrams, illustrations, puns, visual games, experimental fonts, puzzles, and literary wordplay. You may find it hard to believe that the majority of envelopes arrived at their intended destinations, but they did, and all have postmarks to prove it! Their safe delivery is a tribute to the heroic postal employees who rose to the challenge.

'I do love this book. Each page is a little gift of ingenuity. I made happy, yippy noises as I turned each page' LYNNE TRUSS, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves'Hotly tipped as the stocking-filler hit this Christmas' THE INDEPENDENT'So original - a first-class book' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, SEVEN MAGAZINE

Harriet Russell was brought up in a twelfth-century priory in West Sussex (with various cats, geese and bantams). She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Central Saint Martin's College, specialising in illustration in both courses. She now works as a freelance illustrator in London, mainly within publishing and editorial.