Get Her Off the Pitch by Lynne Truss
For our next Christmas gift recommendation, The Media Book Club, brings you Lynne Truss’ autobiography of an unwitting sports writer. Get Her Off the Pitch! is a particularly hilarious account of someone who literally couldn’t care less about sport and is for some reason tasked with reporting it. Truss is well-known for her best-selling guide to misplaced grammar: Eats, Shoots and Leaves but she spent four years as sports writer for the Times. What Truss brought to the world of sports writing was not knowledge or lifelong dedication but a refreshing point of view that could only have come from an outsider. Fans will remember her colourful descriptions of sportsmen and women while critics will be interested in what-on-earth possessed her to take on such a role.
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