Cat out of Hell

By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself and just as powerful.

A wonderful tale full of parodies, pastiches and paradoxes… pure joy

A novel as entertaining as it is addictive ... the best in humorous writing

One of those rare books that actually makes you laugh out loud... impossible not to read in one sitting

Truss brings an eerie, 19th-century kind of horror into the present-day world

A comic chiller in the best tradition of mad British humour

Warm humour was what made Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves a hit and she hasn’t lost her touch

An inventive tale that’s sure to make you smile. Even if you’re a dog person

A Gothic tale guaranteed to surprise, move and entertain

I doubt there are many authors with the wit, never mind the willingness, to render the glub and gruesome as well as Lynne Truss does

Both crisply amusing and genuinely scary, it's a bold, clever fable that is highly entertaining, an enigmatic modern mystery that is destined to become a modern classic

Bestselling author of Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves and Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss is a journalist, arts and book reviewer, sports columnist and a regular broadcaster for BBC's Radio 4. She's had two plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival, including 'Hell's Bells' in 2012. Her latest book is Get Her Off The Pitch: How Sports Took Over My Life. Cat Out Of Hell is her fourth novel, and the first in over ten years.

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 across a kitchen table. A man and a cat. 
 
The story about to be related is so unusual yet so terrifyingly plausible that it demands to be told in a single sitting. 
 
The man clears his throat, and leans forward, expectant. 
 
'Shall we begin?' says the cat ...

The BBC Radio series that inspired Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Cutting A Dash

The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves 
 
'... It's fair enough that punctuation fans should have the opportunity to hear more words of wisdom from their heroine' - Sunday Times 
 
'Truss presents the arguments for and against the different uses of punctuation in such a humorous way...' - Observer 
 
'It all adds up to lots of memorable, and improving, good fun' - Times 
 
The runaway success of Eats, Shoots & Leaves brought millions of grammar geeks out of the closet and made it cool to care about punctuation. This is the radio series that started it all: five programmes in which Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation. 
 
She accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on a hunt for the 'greengrocer's apostrophe', enters the classroom to hear how children learn punctuation, and finds out whether anyone punctuates text messages. Talking to writers and experts like Fay Weldon and David Crystal, she discovers the origins of the comma in Greek drama and Gregorian chant, considers the case for 'semi-colonic irrigation' and asks how a writer's choice of punctuation expresses his tone of voice.Looking into the future, she wonders if 'emoticons' will put colons, commas and apostrophes on the endangered species list. 
 
Impassioned, informative and always amusing, this is an essential listen for anyone who loves language. 
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 03-31 December 2002

Lynne Truss

'Rollicking, ridiculous and hilarious novel by one of Britain’s funniest writers.'

There aren’t many comic horror stories more enjoyable than this – and even fewer where the main characters are cats!

By the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, a nail-biting tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to be cats. 
 
When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? 
 
Do you follow up news items about cats digging in graveyards? 
 
Do you inquire into long-ago cats who voyaged around the world with Captain Cook? 
 
Well, yes. If you are Alec Charlesworth that is precisely what you do - with unexpected and terrifying consequences ...

Lynne Truss

Praise for The Lunar Cats

'Rollicking, ridiculous and hilarious novel by one of Britain’s funniest writers.'

There aren’t many comic horror stories more enjoyable than this – and even fewer where the main characters are cats!

Books by Lynne Truss

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