In association with his wife Dinah, Ben Hatch has written three guidebooks, Frommer's Scotland With Your Family, Frommer's England With Your Family, and Frommer's Britain For Free. 

His first comic novel, The Lawnmower Celebrity, based loosely on his time as a chicken sandwich station monitor at Darlington McDonalds, was named one of Radio 4's books of the year in 2000. The International Gooseberry, about a hapless backpacker, was published in 2001 and described as "hysterical and surprisingly sad" by the Daily Express.