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)
" 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)
"... consists of 50 different types of people who annoy the authors on trains..." (The Guardian, April 2006)