Pains on Trains
A Commuter's Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions
Andrew Holmes author Matthew Reeves author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:26th Sep '03
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Pains on Trains is the perfect way to take the tedium out of commuting, guaranteed to become as indispensable to the seasoned traveller as the blow-up pillow and water sterilising tablets.
In Pains on Trains, Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves set their sights on the scourge of the modern office worker - other office workers who clog up trains, buses, boats and planes with their annoying habits and depressing clothes. Pains on Trains is dedicated to the rush-hour veteran and consists of a 'pain-spotting' guide to the very worst people you meet on your daily commute. Each painful character is illustrated in their usual context and supported by a short narrative.
"…start ‘pain spotting’ and put the fun back in to commuting…" (Publishing News, 12 September 2003)
"…A new book Pains on Trains offers advice on taking it all [irritating commuters] in your stride..."(Daily Mirror, 24 October 2003)
"…hugely funny…" (Oxford Mail, 31 October 2003)
"…Pains on trains is a hugely funny and brilliantly Observed look at the different types of people…" (Edinburgh Evening News, 1 November 2003)
"…hugely funny…" (Cambridge Evening News, 8 November 2003)
"…hysterically accurate…" (Southern Daily Echo, 8 November 2003)
"…brilliantly observed…" (East Anglian Daily Times, November 2003)
"…hysterically accurate…with wonderful descriptions and illustrations…" (Irish News (Belfast), 1 November 2003)
"....I like to think of myself as fairly curmudgeonly, though I am mild-mannered compared to Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves who have produced a book called Pains on Trains...this consists of 50 different types of people who annoy the authors on trains..." (The Guardian, April 2006)
ISBN: 9781841125640
Dimensions: 174mm x 124mm x 19mm
Weight: 198g
224 pages