Writer Lynne Truss is best known for her bestselling books, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – which has sold over three million copies worldwide – and Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today. These titles, published in 2003 and 2005 respectively, established her in both the UK and the US as an endearing comic voice with quite important things to say about the collapse of literacy, the breakdown of social cohesion, the beauty of the semicolon (when correctly used), and the way airline check-in people evidently have to type out all of Gone With the Wind before they remember to look up from their keyboards.
Before Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss was well known in Britain as a comic writer, her careers including newspaper columnist, radio dramatist, television critic, comic novelist, broadcaster and even (from 1996 to 2000) sports writer. Nowadays she is concentrating on fiction. Her series of comic crime novels, set in Brighton in 1957, got off to a flying start with A Shot in the Dark in 2018, described by The Wall Street Journal as “the funniest crime novel of the year”, and by The Guardian as “a perfect summer read”. The fourth in the series, Psycho by the Sea, is now available in paperback.
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