'Live Magic, Live Music, History, Comedy, Tragedy and Nudity'
Not to be missed. This show will make you happy.
Lyttelton Arts Factory, Jan 15 to Feb 1.
top of page
I've been invited by a small private tour company to co-lead a guided tour of places of literary significance in England - Dickens' London, Shakespeare's Globe, Kipling's Sussex, Hardy's Wessex, the homes of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters and many more. The tour will take place in September/October 2025.
Should you be interested in joining us you can find details of the cost and the itinerary at https://www.connectitalia-nz.com/aliterarypursuithomesoftheauthors
A revised and updated edition of Joe Bennett's A Land of Two Halves will be in bookshops from early November 2024.
Originally published in 2003, and now with four new chapters, this tale of a hitchhiking tour of New Zealand remains a vivid, frank and comic portrait of a paradoxical country.
Twenty years ago Joe Bennett hitchhiked the length and breadth of New Zealand. The result was A Land of Two Halves, a portrait of the country and its many contradictions that is as telling today as it was then.
For as Joe says in his reintroduction to this classic road trip, the name of the All Black first five may have changed but there is still an All Black first five, the waves still thump against Hokitika beach and the debate still rages over the Treaty of Waitangi.
In 2024, Joe, now a superannuitant, dusted off his thumb once more and headed for the one part of the country he missed twenty years ago. The result is four new chapters bringing the story delightfully up to date.
Book Details
ISBN: 9781775492986
ISBN 10: 1775492982
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: 30/10/2024
Pages: 336
RRP:$17.99 NZD
BISAC1 :TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
BISAC2 :TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania
BISAC3 :HUMOR / Topic / Travel
BISAC4 :BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
BISAC5 :HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
bottom of page