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Joe Bennett - author and columnist.
Joe Bennett is an English-born travel writer and columnist who lives in New
Zealand with dogs. His columns are syndicated in newspapers
throughout New Zealand. He has published eleven collections of
columns in New Zealand and three worldwide with Simon & Schuster UK. Simon and
Schuster UK have also published
'A Land of Two Halves', the story of a journey around New Zealand,
'Mustn't Grumble', the story of a journey around England in the
footsteps of H.V.Morton and, most recently
'Where Under Pants Come From', in which Joe traces a pair of Warehouse
underpants from store shelf in New Zealand through all the stages of their
manufacture and eventually to the Chinese cotton fields near Afghanistan.
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Oct 1 2009. Publication of ,'The World's Your Lobster' Joe Bennett's 12th annual collection of columns, in which, as the blurb puts it, he 'once again shines light on a naughty world with prose as fresh as a virgin's breath.
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April 2009. Joe Bennett scooped the grand prize at the seventh annual Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year Award for Where Underpants Come From (Harper Collins). Joe Bennett’s highly original Where Underpants Come From - a quest to track a five-pack of Y-fronts from Chinese cotton fields to New Zealand's menswear shelves. Bennett's book "was a unanimous winner," said chief judge Karen Goa. "Under Bennett's deft pen this is a tightly written, hilarious and compelling story with unexpected emotional depth for a tale about underpants. With this book Joe Bennett, who was a previous runner-up for these awards, proves he’s at the top of his craft.
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Jan 2009. Rights sold to publish 'Where Underpants
Come From' in Korean.
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Jan 2009. Overlook Press buys the rights to publish 'Where Underpants
Come From' in the USA.
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Dec 2008. Rights sold to publish 'Where Underpants
Come From' in Greek.
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November 08, NZ/Aus release of 'Laugh? I could have cried', a celebratory hard
back collection of the very best of Joe's work from the last decade, organised
by topic. The topics range from dogs to God and everything in between and each
has a freshly written introduction. Published by
Harper Collins NZ.
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October 08, NZ/Aus release of 'Alive and Kicking', his 11th annual collection
of columns, published by
Harper Collins NZ.
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May 2008 'Where Underpants
Come From', tracing a pair of Warehouse underpants from store shelf
back to Chinese cotton fields, published worldwide by Simon and Schuster UK.
Order from Amazon.co.uk
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01/10/07 'Love, Death,
Washing Up Etc' a five-year 'best of' collection published worldwide by
Simon and Schuster UK.
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01/10/07 'Eyes
Right (and They's Wrong)' Joe Bennett's 10th collection of columns
published in Australia and New Zealand by
Harper Collins NZ.
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01/7/07 Mass market edition of
'Mustn't Grumble' published worldwide by Simon and Schuster UK.
Available from Amazon.co.uk
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