In 2003, Lynne Truss followed up her popular BBC radio show "Cutting a Dash" with the punctuation sensation Eats, Shoots & Leaves. A former editor, Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the necessary things they are. The book hit number one on the bestseller lists, prompting such extraordinary headlines as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List." With more than 3 million hardcover copies sold worldwide to date, Lynne Truss has made "the history of punctuation a subject at once urgent, sexy, and hilarious" (John Walsh, The Independent).

Lynne Truss will be receiving renewed publicity with the release of her newest book: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Features new illustrations.</p>

LYNNE TRUSS is the author of the New York Times bestsellerTalk to the Hand： The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door， and The Lynne Truss Treasury： Columns and Three Comic Novels . Eats， Shoots & Leaves， for which she won Britain’s Book of the Year Award， has sold over three million copies worldwide. Truss is a regular host on BBC Radio 4， a Times （London） columnist， and the author of numerous radio comedy dramas.