A Certain Age (23 page)

JOHN HUMPHRYS,
Sunday Times

LYNNE TRUSS

Talk to the Hand

The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life
(or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door)

This is not a book about manners, nor a book about etiquette. It is a book about rudeness.

Lynne Truss, bestselling author of
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
and champion of correct punctuation, returns to fight for the cause of politeness. A joyous rant against the everyday institutionalised rudeness we’ve all become accustomed to,
Talk to the Hand
brilliantly dissects the incivilities of modern life. Why are other people so crass, selfish and inconsiderate? Why do we have to put up with so much swearing? And whatever happened to public-spiritedness?

‘A lively and witty broadside against the modern “eff off” society’

Sunday Express

‘Trademark Truss … (very) readable, (very) funny, (very) engaging’

Observer

LYNNE TRUSS

Get Her Off the Pitch!

How Sport Took Over My Life

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 spent four years as an unlikely sports writer for
The Times.
It was a job that took her around the world (via the most difficult journeys and least glamorous hotels) and introduced her to some of the greatest living sportsmen (and many argumentative men with clipboards).

It is a hilarious, perceptive and at times moving account of those four strange years. It is perfect for those for whom sport is a matter of life and death, for those who have no idea what all the fuss is about – and for everyone in between.

‘Who will want to read this book? Just people like me who are largely indifferent to sport but enjoy literate, amusing, properly punctuated writing about anything’

Daily Mail

‘She can write comedy for Britain’

The Times

LYNNE TRUSS

Making the Cat Laugh

One Woman’s Journal of Single Life on the Margins

A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’s journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom.

For seven years Lynne Truss, in columns for
The Listener, The Times
and
Woman’s Journal,
tried to make her cat laugh. Along the way, ‘Margins’, ‘Single of Life’ and ‘One Woman’s Journal’ collected a band of devoted fans, yet the cat remained unimpressed. But, under headings such as ‘The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn’t Fancy the Hassle’ and ‘The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad’, we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but prone to overreacting generally – to news stories, shopping, passive smoking, Christmas, coupledom, boyfriends, snails, sheds, Andre Agassi, cooking instructions, requests of ‘How’s the novel going?’ and personal remarks of any kind.

‘A small masterpiece of comedy … A continual hoot’

The Times

‘Trenchant writing, invigorating valour, and a shrewdly observant wit’

Scotland on Sunday