Ben Hatch Books in Order

Ben Hatch has written 8 books, published between 2000 and 2013. The first book is The Lawnmower Celebrity (2000) and the newest is Road to Rouen (2013). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2000–2013
Pages on record
1,417 in 5 of 8 books
Reading time
24–35 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,417 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

Ben Hatch's eight catalogued books run from The Lawnmower Celebrity (2000) to Road to Rouen (2013). Subject headings place much of the work in travel: guidebooks to Britain, England and Scotland, family recreation, vacations, and description and travel, filed as nonfiction. Frommer's England with Your Family (2010) and Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain (2011) belong to that group. The median book runs to 256 pages.

How many Ben Hatch books are there?

Ben Hatch has 8 books, released between 2000 and 2013.

Ben Hatch Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Ben Hatch books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    The Lawnmower Celebrity2000 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000256
  2. 2
    The International Gooseberry2001 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001320
  3. 32009248
  4. 4
    Frommer's England with Your Family2010 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010248
  5. 52010
  6. 62011345
  7. 7
    The P45 Diaries2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  8. 8
    Road to Rouen2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013

Ben Hatch books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

8 books

8 Ben Hatch titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ben Hatch books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 8 Ben Hatch books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Ben Hatch

Start with The Lawnmower Celebrity (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ben Hatch book?

Road to Rouen (2013) is the newest Ben Hatch book released so far.

Is there a new Ben Hatch book coming?

No next Ben Hatch book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Ben Hatch at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Ben Hatch title on record dates from 2013, 13 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Ben Hatch books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,417 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ben Hatch books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ben Hatch books are about

6 of the 8 Ben Hatch books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: guidebooks is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Guidebooks 3 of 6 books
  • Family recreation 2 of 6 books
  • Great britain, guidebooks 2 of 6 books
  • Travel 2 of 6 books