Home Books Where to buy Contact Us Celebrity Cat Recipes Where to buy ISBN-10: 1869508114 ISBN-13: 9781869508111 Harper Collins NZ This book contains neither cats nor recipes, and the only celebrities are on the end of Joe Bennett’s skewer: Tiger Woods, say, or Michael Jackson. ... Read more Hello Dubai Where to buy ISBN-10: 1847376746 ISBN-13: 9781847376749 Simon & Schuster Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats,... Read more   The World's Your Lobster Where to buy ISBN-10: 1869508106 ISBN-13: 9781869508104 Harper Collins NZ Even by his own rich standards, Joe Bennett's had a remarkable year. New Zealand's foremost columnist has written the inaugural speech for Barack Obama ("Yea, verily, I am come unto you")... Read more Alive And Kicking Where to buy ISBN-10: 1869506723 ISBN-13: 9781869506728 Harper Collins NZ Alive: aboveground, animate, animated, breathing, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, capable of life, chipper, conscious, endowed with life, enjoying health, enlivened, eupeptic, existent, fine, fit, fit and fine... Read more   Laugh? I could have cried Where to buy ISBN-10: 1869507452 ISBN-13: 9781869507459 Harper Collins NZ Joe Bennett was born into the middle classes of England in 1957. Life was stable, suburban and sunny. Computers weren’t around to ruin his childhood, nor terror of paedophiles, nor fast food. He had it easy. Read more Where Underpants Come From Where to buy ISBN-10: 1847370012 ISBN-13: 978-1847370013 Simon & Schuster When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand Warehouse for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. Read more   Eyes Right (and They's Wrong) Where to buy ISBN(NZ): 1869506715 ISBN(Australia): 0731813502 Harper Collins NZ In the past year New Zealand’s favourite columnist has turned fifty, lost a dog, been to China, been motivationally spoken to, built a goatshed, drunk with a Bangkok Buddhist, survived Christmas, eavesdropped Winnie with Condoleezza and . . . Read more Love, Death, Washing-up, Etc Where to buy ISBN-10: 1847391087 ISBN-13: 978-1847391087 Simon & Schuster In between penning his hugely acclaimed and bestselling travelogues, A LAND OF TWO HALVES and MUSTN'T GRUMBLE, Joe Bennett is also one of the foremost newspaper columnists in his adoptive home, New Zealand. Read more   A Land of Two Halves Where to buy 0-743-26357-X Simon & Schuster After ten years in New Zealand, Joe Bennett asked himself what on earth he was doing there. Other than his dogs, what was it about these two small islands on the edge of the world that had kept him.. Read more Mustn't Grumble (Mass Market Edition) Where to buy ISBN-10: 141652603X ISBN-13: 978-1416526032 Simon & Schuster Fifteen years ago, Joe Bennett left England for a holiday. Now it's time to come back. But how is the England of his memory different from the England of the motorway? Read more   Bedside Lovers (and other goats) Where to buy 0-7432-1997-X Simon & Schuster Following the success of FUN RUN AND OTHER OXYMORONS, the quintessential Englishman abroad - who 'distrusts all beliefs, most thought and anything ending in "ism"' - regales us once again with his dry and hilarious observations on the... Read more Down Boy Where to buy 1-877393-25-8 Hazard Press Whether his subject is Islam, goats, Kate Moss, a missing sock, Daktari or duff English, his prose is laser-sharp, clear as sunlight and irrepressibly funny. Down Boy is Joe’s ninth collection of columns. Read more   Dogmatic Where to buy 1-877393-11-8 Hazard Press Joe Bennett is English by birth and was raised in Brighton - a town once described as looking as if it was helping the police with their enquiries. He went to Cambridge University and then... Read more Unmuzzled Where to buy 1-877270-85-7 Hazard Press You know all those Joe Bennett newspaper columns you loved this year and wish you’d kept? The ones that made you laugh out loud over your breakfast? The ones in which he said just what you’d been thinking – only so much better? Read more   Doggone Where to buy 1-877270-34-2 Hazard Press If, as Clive James said, a sense of humour is just common sense dancing, Joe Bennett’s a ball. Doggone, the fifth collection of his columns, overflows with the delicious prose, the puncturing of pretension, the wisdom and the wit that marked the bestsellers Just Walking the... 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