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A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland by Ben Aitken
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving. He booked the cheapest flight he could find, to a place he had never heard ...Show more
Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island by Ben Aitken
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
An irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic, from the author of The Gran Tour 'It would be wrong to view this book as just a highly accomplished homage to a personal hero. Aitken's politics, as much as his humour, are firmly in the spotlight, and Dear Bill Bryson achieves more than its title (possibl ...Show more
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
FROM FISHING AND FLYING TO FRENCH COOKING - BEN AITKEN'S YEAR OF ACTIVELY PURSUING FUN. ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH? Ben Aitken wasn't. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to change. So he joined a lawn bowls club. About a week later, he continued his assault on the doldrums by ...Show more
The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAŃOne millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap.When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lag ...Show more
The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
One house. Two housemates. Three reasons to worry: Winnie and Ben are separated by 50 years, a gulf in class, and major differences of opinion.
The Marmalade Diaries - The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the author of The Gran Tour, a portrait of an intergenerational friendship. Recently widowed, Winnie, 84, was in need of some companionship. Someone to help with the weekly food shop and offer tips on the crossword. Ben, 34, was looking for a new housemate. As the UK was locked down in 2020, Ben ...Show more
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