Ben Bennetts: 11 books

The Religion Business: Cashing In On God‘Ben’ BennettsFaith Warning!Do not read this book if you have a blind faith in the existence of God, or any other god(s), and you don’t want your faith shaken, stirred or otherwise disturbed.If you make the assumption that all gods, including God,...

In 1977, I published a small 16-page booklet titled “Quickie Table Wines”. It was a simple “do this, do that” set of instructions designed to produce palatable fruit-based table wines within 4 to 5 weeks. The technique had been well researched and proven by experiment and the booklet went...

As a young boy, I lived for two years between 1950 and 1952, in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, with my parents and sister. My father was in the Royal Air Force and we were based at RAF Negombo, not far from Colombo. This is an account of my life there.

Do you fancy yourself as a creative writer? Do you enjoy composing great works of literary art—meticulous texts, elegant e-mails, scathing or amusing letters to an editor, scintillating blogs, entertaining short stories, erudite reference books, unputdownable novels? Is there even such a word as...

In-between writing ‘proper’ books, the author often dashes off an essay on anything that amuses him or otherwise catches his attention. Fingers to the Keyboard is an eclectic mix and collection of these essays on topics such as the stupidity of politicians, the idiosyncrasies of English grammar,...

Walking is good for you. It provides physical exercise and stimulates the senses. It gets you out and about. You see places that can only be reached on foot. It also has its moments, sometimes funny sometimes dangerous, plus mishaps and other adventures. This book is a collection of observations,...

Here we go again; the third in the series of collected blogs, brought together, placed into topic categories, and published as an e-book under the general title Fingers to the Keyboard. This set, for the period 2017 - 2018, features the seventy-five blogs I published throughout the two year period....

Walking is good for you. It provides physical exercise and stimulates the senses. It gets you out and about. You see places that can only be reached on foot. It also has its moments, sometimes funny sometimes dangerous, plus mishaps and other adventures. This series of books is a collection of observations,...

How are you on words? Do you know your oxymorons from your tautologies; your alliterations from your euphemisms; your acronyms from your homonyms; or your onomatopoeias from your palindromes? Is 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' a nonce word or a nonsense word? Can you create neologisms...

In 2014, I published a series of essay on a variety of topics—politics, religion, book and film reviews, English grammar, sport, general moans and groans, and so on—titled 'Fingers to the Keyboard: 2000 – 2014'. The essays were originally meant for a small select audience and encouraged...

The Dream Guardian is targeted at 8-years-old-ish and upwards readers and is based, in part, on the bedtime stories I used to tell my granddaughters Ella (now 18) and Georgia (almost 16) when they were much younger and stayed over at our place. My two younger granddaughters, Emilie (11) and Lottie...