SLEEPING DOGS AND OTHER LIES by Joe Bennett. Card covers with 152 pages. Published by Hazard Press, Christchurch in 1999.

“This, Joe Bennett's 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.

Bennett blasts every topic with the limpid comic prose which has led to his columns being syndicated throuhout New Zealand...”

'It's brilliant. I can't tell you how much I am enjoying it.' - Bill Bryson.

'Bennett's writing is a splendid example of how simple English can be employed to devastating effect. He makes our other columnists seem earnest, stolid and verbose.' - Graeme Lay, North and South.

This local book is in excellent condition and comes from a smoke-free home.