Have you ever wondered why you never see a woman playing chess? Why half the Swedes in Sweden sing in choirs? Why a pig's orgasm lasts for half an hour? Or why, when they neither chop nor stick, chopsticks are so called?
If you relish laughing out loud at the expense of the pretentious and pompous and like your wit laced with insight and compassion, then take heart. Following the success of 'Fun Run And Other Oxymorons', Joe Bennett is back with a second helping of the joyously good and the alarmingly absurd.
The Pope, Fidel Castro, the Queen Mum and John Prescott are just some of the figures featuring in his latest collection. Writing with the clarity of glass and the zest of a child, Bennett pursues the lovely and the loathsome with equal vigour in a series of irresistibly humorous and superbly crafted vignettes.
From tortoise smuggling and culinary fads to bad poetry and good poultry, Joe's eclectic range of topics and targets, penned with his trademark shrewd humour, provide a refreshing perspective on the ordinary strangeness of our lives.
