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Hello Dubai: Skiiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City by Joe Bennett
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Joe Bennett Unmuzzled by Joe Bennett
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
You know all those Joe Bennett newspaper columns you loved this year and wish youâÃÂÃÂd keptT The ones that made you laugh out loud over your breakfastT The ones in which he said just what youâÃÂÃÂd been thinking âÃÂàonly so much bettero The ones that inveighed against jet-skis, p ...Show more
Just Walking the Dogs by Joe Bennett
19.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If they (the children late for class) lie badly I punish them. If they lie creatively I laugh, congratulate them and punish them. Both of us know its a ritual. They will be late again tomorrow. The same children. They're late people. But Joe Bennett is not late. Or if he is, hes like the bloke whos just ...Show more
King Rich by Joe Bennett
32.99 NZD
36.99 (10% off)
Category: General 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: Humour
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
36.00 (16% off)
Category: Travel Writing
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
Sit! - out of print by BENNETT Joe
19.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A new collection of columns from New Zealand's favourite wordsmith. Not to be missed!
Sleeping Dogs and Other Lies by Joe Bennett
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non 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
So Help ME Dog by Joe Bennett
19.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
If you relish laughing out loud at the expense of the pretentious and the pompous, if you admire superbly crafted prose, if you like your wit laced with insight and compassion, if the absurdity of life brings you joym then you should not be without a copy of So Help Me Dog.
The World's Your Lobster by Joe Bennett
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Where Underpants Come From: From Checkout to Cotton Field - Travels in the New China by Joe Bennett
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how are the pants made? And who decides on t ...Show more