Pains on Trains

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Pains on Trains is the perfect way to take the tedium out ofcommuting, guaranteed to become as indispensable to the seasonedtraveller as the blow-up pillow and water sterilisingtablets. In Pains on Trains, Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves set theirsights on the scourge of the modern office worker - other officeworkers who clog up trains, buses, boats and planes with theirannoying habits and depressing clothes. Pains on Trains isdedicated to the rush-hour veteran and consists of a'pain-spotting' guide to the very worst people you meet on yourdaily commute. Each painful character is illustrated in their usualcontext and supported by a short narrative.

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Andrew Holmes

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Business & Management Conflict Resolution & Mediation (Workplace Settings) Konfliktbewältigung am Arbeitsplatz Wirtschaft u. Management

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"...start 'pain spotting' and put the fun back into commuting..." (Publishing News, 12 September 2003) "...A new book Pains on Trains offers advice on taking itall [irritating commuters] in your stride..."(Daily Mirror, 24October 2003) "...hugely funny..." (Oxford Mail, 31 October 2003) "...Pains on trains is a hugely funny and brilliantlyObserved look at the different types of people..." (EdinburghEvening News, 1 November 2003) "...hugely funny..." (Cambridge Evening News, 8 November2003) "...hysterically accurate..." (Southern Daily Echo, 8November 2003) "...brilliantly observed..." (East Anglian Daily Times,November 2003) "...hysterically accurate...with wonderful descriptionsand illustrations..." (Irish News (Belfast), 1 November2003) "....I like to think of myself as fairly curmudgeonly, though Iam mild-mannered compared to Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves whohave produced a book called Pains on Trains...this consists of 50different types of people who annoy the authors on trains..."(The Guardian, April 2006)
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