Beta Male: Four Friends, Three Assumed Identities, Two Weddings and One Very Dangerous Bet - Softcover

Iain Hollingshead is an author and journalist. His first novel –Twenty Something – was published in May 2006. His second, Beta Male, appeared in April 2010. He has also written three spin-off books for the BBC’s BAFTA-winning spy drama Spooks, and has edited five bestselling collections of unpublished letters to The Daily Telegraph in the Am I alone in thinking...? series. He also co-authored and produced a musical – Blair on Broadway – which ran for three weeks in a pub theatre before transferring to the West End. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications, from the Guardian to GQ, Grazia to The Sunday Times.Regular columns have included “Loose Ends”, in the Saturday Guardian, and “Friends”, a pastiche of the coalition government in The Sunday Telegraph.

Praise for Where Underpants Come From

¦Bennett¦s education in the world of global commerce sparkles with humor and sharp observations.¦ --Publishers Weekly

¦It¦s a humorous journey in some ways, and Bennett is a very good and often funny writer. But it also becomes a very interesting a comment on how much the West has come to depend on the EastèEvery aspect of the book is rivetingèFrightening, funny and fiercely interesting.¦ --January Magazine

¦Much more than an intrepid investigator reporting how his underpants found their way to his body, Bennett is a delightful guide on an off-the-beaten-track-tour of the New Chinaè The good time he has on his adventures from one end of China to the other is infectious.¦ --ShelfAwareness

¦If you read only one China book this year, make it Joe Bennett¦s Where Underpants Come From. Bennett does witty travelogue better than Bill Bryson, and dissects what makes countries and their economies tick better than PJ O¦Rourke did in Eat the Rich.¦ Urbanatomy.com