From the classic BBC Radio 4 series comes this dazzling audiobook in the tradition of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. Six funny, touching, and beautifully observed monologues tell tales of fidelity...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861978134
After conquering punctuation and manners, Lynne Truss turns to family relationships in these twelve fictional monologues, broadcast on Radio 4 and published here with an introduction that explains her inspiration.In the tradition of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" comes Lynne Truss' twelve bittersweet tales about love...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861978790
In the tradition of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, come Lynne Truss's twelve bittersweet tales about love, romance, friendship and family. Her six men and six women each have very different stories to tell...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781405689335
This title presents Series 2 of bestselling author Lynne Truss' popular Ealing-comedy-style mystery series set in Brighton in the 1950s....more details Format:CD-Audio
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9780563525028
The runaway success of Eats, Shoots and Leaves brought millions of grammar geeks out of the closet and made it cool to care about punctuation...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9780789317070
This word lover and wordsmith's calendar is based on the punctuation sensation "Eats, Shoots and Leaves," With such observations as "people truly do not know their apostrophe from their elbow...more details Format:Daily
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861976123
A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The panda shrugged...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781592404889
The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed "New Yorker" cartoonist Pat Byrnes The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p's and q's (and their commas and semicolons)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781592402038
A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Trussas now classic #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover...more details Format:Paperback Pages:209
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9780789323033
This word-lover and wordsmith's calendar is based on the punctuation sensation "Eats, Shoots &and Leaves" that hit #1 on best-seller lists and has sold more than 3 million hardcover copies worldwide. With such observations as "people truly do not know their apostrophe from their elbow...more details Format:Calendar
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861978165
You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Children Drive Slowly on a road-sign doesn't quite sum up what kids do in their spare time. And we all know now that the comma in Eats...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9780007329069
The international bestseller, reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861976772
When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century, people will note a turning point in 2003 when declining standards of punctuation were reversed. Linguists will record Lynne Truss as the saviour of the semi-colon and the avenging angel of the apostrophe.
A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:228
GET HER OFF THE PITCH is the story of one woman?s foray into the very masculine and rather baffling world of sport. Lynne Truss, author of Eats...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9780747259657
Belinda Johansson is a woman frantic. Deep in research for her magnum opus - a definitive account of the doppelganger in classic gothic fiction - she fails to notice the echoes of these ghoulish tales disturbingly close at hand. For not only is the cleaning lady taking over her life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
Belinda Johansson is a woman frantic, overwhelmed by the demands of work and home. Having it all? Pah. Belinda doesn't want any of it. Deep in research for her magnum opus - a definitive account of thedoppelganger in classic gothic fiction - she fails to notice the echoes of these ghoulish tale disturbingly close at hand...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
For seven long years, starting in The Listener in 1988 and continuing in The Times and Woman's Journal, Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9780563504344
In her follow-up to Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss asks why rudeness is a universal flashpoint and examines specific sources of affront...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861979339
Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening, the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It's a topic that has been simmering for years...more details Format:Hardback Pages:228
'Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening,' the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It's a topic that has been simmering for years...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781592402403
"Talk to the hand, 'coz the face ain't listening " This expression has become so widespread that Lynne Truss need not even mention the name of the TV talk show where you first heard it...more details Format:Paperback Pages:206
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781855142572
Tennyson's ascendancy as England's foremost poet coincided with one of the most significant inventions of the 19th century: photography. As Poet Laureate...more details Format:Hardback
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861977137
In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and the mismatched couple...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
It is July 1864 and the Isle of Wight is buzzing with eccentric creative types. A morose Alfred, Lord Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861971685
A giant kids' playground certainly sounds like fun, but you might want to watch out in the giant kid's playground; he has a tendency to step on people. A sign stating...more details Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781861977496
'It was nobody's fault, this widely held assumption that Come Into the Garden had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine rack in the sky. Nevertheless...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:233
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Lynne Truss;Pat Byrnes
ISBN:9781592403912
Now in a handsome, hilariously illustrated new edition: The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic that has sold more than 1.6 million copies in North America is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes. The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their pas and qas (and their commas and semicolons)...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176
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Lynne Truss;Timothy West
ISBN:9780792738558
Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her UK audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that reimagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate...more details Format:CD
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Lynne Truss;Timothy West
ISBN:9780792738541
Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her UK audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that reimagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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Lynne Truss;Bonnie Timmons
ISBN:9780399247064
Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference ," now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Lynne Truss;Bonnie Timmons
ISBN:9780399250583
Commas and apostrophes arenat the only punctuation marks that can cause big trouble if theyare put in the wrong place. Now, Truss and Timmons put hyphens...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Lynne Truss;Robert Bathurst
ISBN:9780792739197
Here, in Lynne Truss's first novel, we meet Osborne Lonsdale, a down-at-heel journalist, mysteriously attractive to women, who writes a regular celebrity interview for Come Into the Garden. This week his "Me and My Shed" column will be based on the charming garden outhouse owned by TV sitcom star Angela Farmer. Unbeknown to Osborne...more details Format:CD
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Lynne Truss;Robert Bathurst
ISBN:9780792739180
Here, in Lynne Truss's first novel, we meet Osborne Lonsdale, a down-at-heel journalist, mysteriously attractive to women, who writes a regular celebrity interview for Come Into the Garden. This week his "Me and My Shed" column will be based on the charming garden outhouse owned by TV sitcom star Angela Farmer. Unbeknown to Osborne...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9780007355242
For seven long years, starting in "The Listener" in 1988 and continuing in "The Times" and "Woman's Journal", Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Lynne Truss
ISBN:9781846680359
When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century, people will note a turning point in 2003 when declining standards of punctuation were reversed...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9780007305759
?Years ago, Boris Becker famously said, after losing at Wimbledon, "Nobody died. I just lost a tennis match." And while some people applauded him for his healthy sense of proportion...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9780007355266
Belinda Johansson is a woman frantic, overwhelmed by the demands of work and home. Having it all? Pah. Belinda doesn?t want any of it. Deep in research for her magnum opus -- a definitive account of the doppelgänger in classic gothic fiction -- she fails to notice the echoes of these ghoulish tales disturbingly close at hand...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9780007355235
In the tradition of Alan Bennett?s ?Talking Heads? come Lynne Truss?s twelve bittersweet tales about love, romance, friendship and family. Her six men and six women each have very different stories to tell...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9780007355273
In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting ?Maud? to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and; the mismatched couple...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9780007355280
?It was nobody?s fault, this widely held assumption that "Come Into the Garden" had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine rack in the sky. Nevertheless...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Truss Lynne
ISBN:9781408410615
It?s still 1957 and Sgt Brunswick remains the worst undercover operative around, regularly getting shot for his troubles. Yet he?s attracted the attention of a tenacious crime reporter who wants to write about the ordinary heroic copper...more details Format:CD-Audio