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Ben Hatch From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ben Hatch Born 	1970 (age 44) London, UK Pen name 	Ben Hatch,

Language 	English Nationality 	British Period 	2000-present Genre 	Comedy, travelogue Spouse 	Dinah Children 	2

Son of Sir David Hatch, Ben Hatch (born 1970 in London, England) has been a British comic writer since 2000.

Contents

1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 2 Bibliography 2.1    3 References 4 External links

Biography Personal life

Ben Hatch was born in 1970 in London, England. He studied at Sheffield University. He has worked as a postman, a recruitment consultant, a lawnmower salesman, as bank clerk and as a private detective. He worked for two years as a TV reviewer/reporter for the Leicester Mercury newspaper and before that for the Northampton Chronicle and Echo and The Bucks Herald.

He is married with Dinah, a travel journalist, had two children, Phoebe and Charlie. He lives in Brighton.

In 2000, he published his first comic novel, The Lawnmower Celebrity, named a Radio 4 Book of the Year. In 2001, he published The International Gooseberry. In 2011 he wrote Are We Nearly There Yet? it was made a BBC Radio 2 Book of the Year. In 2013 he published Road to Rouen. The Lawnmower Celebrity was re-released as The P45 Diaries in 2014.

Single novels

The Lawnmower Celebrity (2000) The International Gooseberry (2001) Travel Writing

Are We Nearly There Yet? (2011) Road to Rouen (2013)

References

Ben Hatch's Biography https://www.headline.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=gRRz9BMPtssagUOVHJWRXIXvByqAqQJ8mxcdQyoZ/MJ-eaYLsNQdyQ__l

http://www.marjacq.com/books/ben-hatch

External links

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2358543/Im-Britains-stingiest-dad--proud-it.html