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Eats, Shoots And Leaves (PB) by Lynne Truss
$28.00 NZD
Category: Reference
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 dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
Eats, Shoots and Leaves : Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference by Lynne Truss (illus Bonnie Timmons)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
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 shoots and leaves" is a crucial one. ...Show more
Get Her Off the Pitch! How Sport Took Over My Life by Lynne Truss
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports Biography | Reading Level: good
From the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves , a hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism. 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 spen ...Show more
Get Her Off the Pitch! How sport took over my life by Lynne Truss
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
From the bestselling author of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves', this is the hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism. 'Years ago, Boris Becker famously said, after losing at Wimbledon, "Nobody died. I just lost a tennis match." And while ...Show more
Making the Cat Laugh : One woman's journal of single life on the margins by Lynne Truss
$27.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
One woman's journal of single life on the margins.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, which is why she deserves this book, a recognition of outstanding coura ...Show more
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
<b>The utter bloody rudeness of everyday life (or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door)</b><br><br><i>"Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening,"</i> the saying goes. <br>When did the world become so rude? <br>It's a topic that has been ...Show more
Talk to the Hand - The utter bloody rudeness of everyday life (or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door) by LYNNE TRUSS
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Out of Print 26/08/08 When did the world get to be so rude? How did society become so unsociable? Taking on the boorish behaviour that is a point of pride for some, this book is a rallying cry for courtesy. From the author of the bestselling punctuation book Eats Shoots and Leaves ($23.99, now available ...Show more
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