Time Stops for No Mouse. A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure.

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 261, [5]. Publisher's deep purple cloth boards, stamped in silver to spine; blue endpapers. B/w chapter header illustrations. Jacket illustration by Christopher Inns. Signed by Author to title-page. Toned textblock edges, else Fine.

Originally self-published by Terfle Books, Portland, Oregon, 1999, in a spiral-bound 2 vol., Writer's Proof Edition, limited to 1,000 copies. A trade wrappered issue followed in 2000 before title was picked up by Penguin Putnam for a "record sum received for a children's book", and brought out in a hardcover edition in 2002.

A 2002 Book Sense Book of the Year Award nominee. Author's debut novel and first in the Hermux Tantamoq series, followed by the sequels, The Sands of Time (2001), No Time Like Show Time (2004), and Time to Smell the Roses (2007). The delightful and suspenseful story of Hermux Tantamoq, a hard-working mouse watchmaker in Pinchester, and his brave attempt to find missing aviatrix, Linka Perflinger. Gr. 6–9. "Hoeye's galloping plot, evocative descriptions and exuberantly sophisticated wit keep the pages rapidly turning." –Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Sands of Time