Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss graduated from University College London and, after a brief spell as an assistant librarian, she became a journalist, writing variously for The Times, The Independent on Sunday and the Times Educational Supplement, before ending up with a regular spot on The Times as a sports reporter...
She is the author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas. She has also won the Columnist of the Year award, and hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times.
It was her book Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation however, that became a cult hit and catapulted her into the public consciousness. A rallying call for punctuation sticklers everywhere, it advocates the apparently dying art of good grammar and good punctuation, and where necessary, large marker pen-related guerilla tactics.
Her latest book, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) is in the same vein as Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and examines the world's apparently ever-declining standards of politeness in typically humorous fashion.
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) is priced £9.99, and is available from all good bookshops now.
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