Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference Hardcover Picture Book, Jby Lynne Truss (Author), Bonnie Timmons (Illustrator) 388 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 17.42 104 Used from 1.25 28 New from 10.22 6 Collectible from 9. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition.

Impassioned, informative and always amusing, this is an essential listen for anyone who loves language. Looking into the future, she wonders if ?emoticons? will put colons, commas and apostrophes on the endangered species list. Talking to writers and experts like Fay Weldon and David Crystal, she discovers the origins of the comma in Greek drama and Gregorian chant, considers the case for ?semicolonic irrigation? and asks how a writer?s choice of punctuation expresses his tone of voice. She accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on a hunt for the ?greengrocer?s apostrophe?, enters the classroom to hear how children learn punctuation, and finds out whether anyone punctuates text messages. This is the radio series that started it all: five programmes in which Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation. 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. The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. She lives in Brighton, England.Paperback. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation.

She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked.

Independent If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic Id nominate her for sainthood. Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007329069 Number of pages: 244 Weight: 170 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm MEDIA REVIEWS A punctuation repair kit.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss