diff --git a/recipes/private_eye.recipe b/recipes/private_eye.recipe
index 02798eca90..594ba5ab7d 100644
--- a/recipes/private_eye.recipe
+++ b/recipes/private_eye.recipe
@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ It offers a unique blend of humour, social and political observations and invest
 
         return self.page_index
 
+
+    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
+        for figure in soup.findAll('a', attrs = {'href' : lambda x: x and ('jpg' in x or 'png' in x or 'gif' in x)}):
+            # makes sure that the link points to the absolute web address
+            if figure['href'].startswith('/'):
+                figure['href'] = self.fix_url(figure['href'])
+        return soup
+    
     def postprocess_book(self, oeb, opts, log):
         m = oeb.metadata
         m.clear('title')