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.