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Lynne Truss
Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2021
THE ACCLAIMED MURDER MYSTERY FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PERFECT FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN
'Funny, clever, charming, imaginative and nostalgic'…
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*THE BRAND NEW MURDER MYSTERY FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN*
‘Another delectable crime story… While between the covers of her books, the world seems a better place’ The Times
‘A…
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Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the…
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A Times Crime Novel of the Year, the perfect murder mystery read for fans of Richard Osman and Elly Griffiths
In the second instalment of Lynne Truss's joyfully quirky crime…
Stella Gibbons
When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
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Jane Austen
The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans.
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Brighton, 1957. Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman by the sea. No criminals, no crime, no stress.
By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself…
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When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? Do you inquire…
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As a case twists and turns, Constable Twitten must find the murderer and convince his colleagues that there’s an evil mastermind behind Brighton’s climbing crime rate in the second installment…
Published in 2021 by arrangement with Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. –Title page verso.
A guide to perfect punctuation for those who care about precise writing.
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…
The staff of Come into the Garden magazine are affected by a take-over. Dinsdale, author of the Me and My Shed column, is given to string bags and Tipp-Ex; Lillian…
"In the latest installment of this charming and quirky series, a trio of detectives are faced with the arrival of an escaped criminal with an unlikely penchant for boiling the…
The charming first novel in a new comic crime series from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.
The quirky and charming new crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.
A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss’s now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in…
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One woman’s journal of single life on the margins. A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism - recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.
The quirky and charming third crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.
Lynne Truss’s first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers.
A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
The charming first novel in a new comic crime series, from one of Britain’s most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss.
In the second instalment of Lynne Truss’s joyfully quirky crime series, our trio of detectives must investigate the murder of a hapless romantic; an aristocratic con man on the prowl…
Erin Moore
A transatlantic survival guide, that examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language. It shows why Americans give - and take - so many bloody…
Presents a funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s, in which Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort…
Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of…
Just as the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves hilariously demystified the comma, this companion book does the same for apostrophes. Silly scenes throughout show how apostrophes…
Commas and apostrophes aren’t the only punctuation marks that can cause big trouble if they?re put in the wrong place. Now, Truss and Timmons put hyphens, parentheses, quotation marks, periods…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS ‘Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century’ The Times Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a…
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The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike.
A pocket-sized paperback compendium of the hilariously illustrated #1 New York Times bestselling series of books about punctuation –Provided by publisher.
An anthology of short stories that also includes three stories from the winners of the Woman & Home Short Story Competition.
