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Bookclub: Peas & Queues: The Minefield of modern Manners

Mind your Ps and Qs is an expression most children hear when growing up, but what does it actually mean in 2013?
Bookclub: Peas & Queues: The Minefield of modern Manners
Bookclub: Peas & Queues: The Minefield of modern Manners
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Peas & Queues

Sandi Toksvig (Allen & Unwin, $29.99)

Mind your Ps and Qs is an expression most children hear when growing up, but what does it actually mean in 2013?

Written as a series of letters to “Mary” – an eight-year-old in the author’s life – this is a comprehensive manual of etiquette history and social observation.

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From table manners and behaviour at the office party to pregnancy (never, ever ask a woman if she’s expecting), and Twitter trolls, Sandi has sage advice.

What’s acceptable or not changes with the social mores of each generation and in this witty, no-nonsense guide there’s advice for people of all ages to navigate the modern world.

We have 10 copies to give away.

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