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A Land of Two Halves by Joe Bennett
$22.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
After fifteen years in New Zealand, Joe Bennett asked himself where on earth he was. The country he had arrived in and liked so much didn't seem to be the one the world's media was excitedly discovering. So he packed his bag, said farewell to his dog and stuck out his thumb. Observing both the intriguin ...Show more
Dogmatic by Joe Bennett
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Joe Bennett's columns have been published to the highest acclaim throughout the world. This, his eighth collection from Hazard Press, once again gives the over 10,000 New Zealanders who collect his columns each year the chance to add another volume to the bookcase at home. First published November ...Show more
Double Happiness: An Anatomy of Bullshit by Joe Bennett
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Bullshit has always been with us but as a result of the proliferation of media in the last century we are now awash with it, drowning in it. It has become so accepted a part of the human landscape that bullshitters can not only make a living from bullshit and achieve power, prestige and wealth -- they c ...Show more
Fish Like a Drink by Joe Bennett
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Since his last collection of columns, Joe Bennett's been shaken and stickered, protected from bureaucrats by a Bulgarian in a frock and deprived of his favourite drinking hole. He's defied a council, eaten a rabbit, witnessed a marriage, saved a dog, failed to save a Venetian pigeon and much, much more. ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Hello Dubai: Skiiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City by Joe Bennett
$26.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corpor ...Show more
King Rich by Joe Bennett
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The haunting story of two people linked by disaster and a desire for the truth, set amid the physical and emotional devastation of a post-earthquake Christchurch. A love story. Of sorts. At dusk he lights the candelabrum, creating an island of light in the centre of the room, animating the faces of the ...Show more
Laugh? I Could Have Cried by Joe Bennett
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Joe Bennett came to New Zealand at age 29 to teach for one year. Aged 51, he's still here. But in 1998 he swapped the classroom for the opinion page of the nation's newspapers. Since then he's been Qantas Media Awards Columnist of the Year three times, he's had eleven collections of his columns publishe ...Show more
Mustn't Grumble by Joe Bennett
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
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? Identikit High Streets, imported cheeriness ( Welcome to Sunny Grimsby!'), chicken tikka poker machine pubs -- things aren't what they u ...Show more
Sleeping Dogs and Other Lies by Joe Bennett
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
This, Joe BennettâÂÂs second collection of columns, deals with the horrors of golf and hospital, the pleasures of oxymorons and cricket, the sickness of dogs and apostrophes, and the blights of suburbia from Star Wars to karaoke, interviews to airports. âÂÂItâÂÂs brilliant. I canâÂÂt tell yo ...Show more
The World's Your Lobster by Joe Bennett
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
One of this country's most widely read and popular syndicated columnists, both in newspapers and magazines, Joe Bennett's erudite and wryly amusing commentaries on the foibles and eccentricities of modern life qualify him as one of our best-loved grouches. He finds much to complain about, much to condem ...Show more