Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

Sports & Outdoors

LYNNE TRUSS

Biographies

Fourth Estate

GET HER OFF THE PITCH PB

Fourth Estate Paperbacks

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'. 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 courage in the face of futility. Along the way, 'Margins', 'Single of Life' and 'One Woman's Journal' have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed. Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in 'Making the Cat Laugh'. But under the headings such as 'The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn't Fancy the Hassle' and 'The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but prone to over-reacting generally - to news stories, s

MAKING CAT LAUGH PB

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Harpercollins Pb

GOING LOCO PB

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

HarperCollins, Publishers

Xasdatalktothehand

Harper Collins Promotion

A New York Times Bestselling Author Lynne Truss debuted in America with her #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots and Leaves. But in the UK she has been known for years as a columnist and critically acclaimed author of several comic novels now available stateside. This raucous comedy of errors follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called "Me and My Shed" for a floundering gardening magazine.

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Penguin

Tennyson's Gift

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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, the editor's secretary has an aversion to telephones; the sub, Michele, has an eye for split infinitives and hanging participles.

With one lousy free packet of seed

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

This is 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 courage in the face of futility. Along the way, "Margins", "Single of Life" and "One Woman's Journal" have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed, we understand he may not even show up at the launch party. Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in "Making the Cat Laugh". But under the headings such as 'The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn't Fancy the Hassle' and 'The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but prone to over-reacting generally - to news stories (Man 'eaten' in gruesome cat horror) shopping, passive smoking, Christmas, coupledom, boyfriends, snails, sheds, Andre Agassi, cooking instructions, requests of 'How's the novel going?' and personal remarks of any kind.

Making the cat laugh: one woman's journal of single life on the margins

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Hamish Hamilton

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