Hello and welcome to the Lynne Truss website. What will you find here? Well, the make-up of this site eerily reflects the proportions of my own life: i.e. there's a tiny bit representing life itself (see Biog) and then a huge, merciless, overwhelming amount of writing, writing, writing (see Books, Audio, Journalism, Broadcasting, etc).
2009 saw the third series of Inspector Steine on Radio 4 and also the publication of a new non-fiction book, Get Her Off The Pitch! in October. This is an account of my four years as a sports writer, and was published by 4th Estate. I’ve been wanting to write this book for years, and am so glad that I was finally able to create the right conditions to do it (I had to change publishers, but that’s a long story). Anyway, it has been a joy to write. As the book makes clear, being a middle-aged woman sports writer who didn’t know much about sport was quite a challenge in many ways, but I was always aware that the material it gave me – about sport, about gender, and about the difficulties of maintaining a sense of proportion – was absolute dynamite.
