The Marmalade Diaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marmalade Diaries write by Ben Aitken. This book was released on 2022-03-10. The Marmalade Diaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Charming, touching and very very funny' Jenny Colgan 'Simply too good' Daily Mail From the author of the acclaimed THE GRAN TOUR 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. When hunting for a room in London, Ben Aitken came across one for a great price in a lovely part of town. There had to be a catch. And there was. The catch was Winnie: an 85-year-old widow who doesn't suffer fools. Full of warmth, wit and candour, The Marmalade Diaries tells the story of an unlikely friendship during an unlikely time. Imagine an intergenerational version of Big Brother, but with only two contestants. One of the pair a grieving and inflexible former aristocrat in her mid-eighties. The other a working-class millennial snowflake. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right? Out of the most inauspicious of soils - and from the author of The Gran Tour - comes a book about grief, family, friendship, loneliness, life, love, lockdown and marmalade.
The Gran Tour
The Gran Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gran Tour write by Ben Aitken. This book was released on 2020-09-03. The Gran Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Both moving and hilarious' Spectator, Books of the Year 'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he write.' Daily Mail, Book of the Week FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAN. One 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 lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over. Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last. A series of coach holidays ensued - from Scarborough to St Ives, Killarney to Lake Como - during which Ben attempts to shake off his thirty-something blues by getting old as soon as possible.
Summary of Ben Aitken's The Marmalade Diaries
Summary of Ben Aitken's The Marmalade Diaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Ben Aitken's The Marmalade Diaries write by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z. Summary of Ben Aitken's The Marmalade Diaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My new housemate is 85 and widowed. She likes to garden and talk about paintings. I’m not fussed by her idiosyncrasies, as long as I can keep my distance from her. #2 I live with a very old and very peculiar woman named Winnie who doesn’t like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise. #3 I live with a woman named Winnie who doesn’t like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise. #4 I live with a woman named Winnie who doesn’t like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise.
A Chip Shop in Poznań
A Chip Shop in Poznań - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chip Shop in Poznań write by Ben Aitken. This book was released on 2019-07-04. A Chip Shop in Poznań available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO WARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM. 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. In 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn't love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place he'd never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage. When he wasn't peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country's surface: he milked cows with a Eurosceptic farmer; missed the bus to Auschwitz; spent Christmas with complete strangers and went to Gdansk to learn how communism got the chop. By the year's end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains, northern beaches, dumplings! - and an uncanny ability to bone cod. This is a candid, funny and offbeat tale of a year as an unlikely immigrant.
Dear Bill Bryson
Dear Bill Bryson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Bill Bryson write by Ben Aitken. This book was released on 2022-02-03. Dear Bill Bryson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE GRAN TOUR AND THE MARMALADE DIARIES An irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic. '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 (possibly even its author) intended.' Manchester Review In 2013, travel writer Ben Aitken decided to follow in the footsteps of his hero - literally - and started a journey around the UK, tracing the trip taken by Bill Bryson in his classic tribute to the British Isles, Notes from a Small Island. Staying at the same hotels, ordering the same food, and even spending the same amount of time in the bath, Aitken's homage - updated and with a new preface for 2022 - is filled with wit, insight and humour.
