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A Land of Two Halves by Joe Bennett
22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
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
Alive and Kicking by Joe Bennett
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
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, full of beans, healthful, healthy, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, i ...Show more
Barking by Joe Bennett
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'George Orwell said that every writer was both vain and lazy. Assuming a columnist counts as a writer, then I'm with him. Every word I write is a victory for vanity over laziness. Every unwritten word's a defeat. Orwell also said that every writer was to some degree an aesthete. I'm with him on that too ...Show more
Celebrity Cat Recipes by Joe Bennett
29.00 NZD
Category: Humour
An eclectic and wonderfully eccentric collection of superbly crafted pieces which expand on Joe's thoughts about the absurdities and oddities of life.
Doggone by Joe Bennett
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
If, as Clive James said, a sense of humour is just common sense dancing, Joe Bennett
Dogmatic by Joe Bennett
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | 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: Current Affairs & Politics
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
Down Boy by Joe Bennett
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
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 his ever popular columns. First published August 2006.
Eyes Right (and They's Wrong) : Joe Bennett sets the world straight. Again by Joe Bennett
21.99 NZD
Category: Humour
The new collection of columns from Joe Bennett, columnist extrordinare. Joe Bennett is a well-known and contentious columnist and commentator who lives and works from Christchurch. A successful author of travel books - Mustn't Grumble, and A Land of Two Halves in recent years, and indeed currently re ...Show more
Fish Like a Drink by Joe Bennett
24.99 NZD
Category: Humour | 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
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ 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: 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