Welcome back book clubbers ...

We have a special treat - you might even call it a Christmas present - lined up for you. We're asking you to pass judgment on she who has judged so many: none other than the arbiter of punctuation herself, Lynne Truss.

This month, John Mullan is taking us through her prodigiously popular examination of the state of punctuation today: Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Read what John says in his columns, and listen to him and Lynne discussing issues raised in the book on the book club event podcast, then let us know what you think.

Pedantic or visionary? Irrelevant or the last line of defence between us and linguistic armageddon? Over to you.