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  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves

    The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

    by Lynne Truss ...
    The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to’s to show how important punctuation is in our world—period.In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Murder by Milk Bottle

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Series series A Constable Twitten Mystery
    The quirky and charming third crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.In the wake of two extremely high-profile murder cases, and with the summer of 1957 finally winding down, Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But his hoped-for rest is interrupted when he and his colleagues find a trio of bodies, all murdered with the same unusual weapon: a ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Man That Got Away

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Series series A Constable Twitten Mystery
    A charming second comic crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.1957: In the beach town of Brighton, music is playing and guests are sunning themselves, when a young man is found dead, dripping blood, in a deck chair.Constable Twitten of the Brighton Police Force has a hunch that the fiendish murder may be connected to a notorious nightspot, but his captain and his ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Constable Twitten Mysteries

    A Three Book Bundle

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Series series A Constable Twitten Mystery
    The first three charming, witty, and joyfully quirky novels in New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss's Constable Twitten Mysteries.A Shot in the Dark:In 1957, Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman in the seaside British town of Brighton. As far as he's concerned, the town has no criminals, which means no crime, and no stress. But much to Steine's irritation, there's a new ... Read more

    $45.29 CAD

  • A Shot in the Dark

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Series series A Constable Twitten Mystery
    The charming first novel in a new comic crime series from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.It's 1957, and Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman in the seaside British town of Brighton. As far as he's concerned, the town has no criminals, which means no crime, and no stress.But much to Steine's irritation, there's a new constable in town—the keen and clever Constable ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Eats, Shoots and Leaves

    by Lynne Truss ...
    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 reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Talk to the Hand

    The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt The Door

    by Lynne Truss ...
    "Talk to the hand, ’cause the face ain’t listening," the saying goes.When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society become so thoughtless? It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says it’s now reached the boiling point. Taking on the boorish behavior that for some has become a point of pride, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots & ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Constable Twitten Mysteries

    A Four-Book Bundle

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Series series A Constable Twitten Mystery
    DISCOVER THE AWARD-WINNING MURDER MYSTERY SERIES FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PERFECT FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN'Funny, clever, charming, imaginative and nostalgic' The Times'Terrific' Mail on Sunday'A giddy spell of sheer delight' Daily MailThis digital bundle includes all 4 books in Lynne Truss's gloriously funny crime series set in 1950s B... ... Read more

    $39.89 CAD

  • Cat out of Hell

    by Lynne Truss ...
    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 and just as powerful.The scene: a cottage on the coast on a windy evening. Inside, a room with curtains drawn. Tea has just been made. A kettle still steams.Under a pool of yellow light, two figures face each other ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lynne Truss Treasury

    Columns and Three Comic Novels

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface.With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called "Me and ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Psycho by the Sea

    a pageturning laugh-out-loud English cozy mystery

    by Lynne Truss ...
    Series series A Constable Twitten Mystery
    **'Another delectable crime story... While between the covers of her books, the world seems a better place' The Times'A giddy spell of sheer delight!' Praise for the Constable Twitten Series, Daily Mail**In the latest installment of this prize-winning crime mystery series, our trio of redoubtable detectives are faced with the arrival in town of an escaped convict...It's September in Brighton and ... Read more

    $20.49 CAD

  • The Exclamation Mark

    And Other Short Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Roasmund Bartlett ...
    Series series Hesperus Classics
    A civil servant stands accused of not understanding the rules of punctuation. He begins to go through the correct use of commas and semicolons before arriving at the exclamation mark, which, he realizes, in 40 years of writing, he has never used. From here he develops a bizarre and paranoid fantasy in which everyday objects transform into malevolent exclamation marks. Written when Chekhov was on ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus