

Mon, May 19
|The Stripey Badger
Cream Tea and Meet The Author with Ben Aitken
Our Cream Tea and Meet The Author event with Ben Aitken, author of Sh*tty Breaks: A Celebration of Unsung Cities.
Time & Location
May 19, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
The Stripey Badger, 7 The Square, Grassington, BD23 5AQ
Guests
About the event
Ben Aitken was born under Thatcher, grew to 6ft then stopped, and is an Aquarius. He followed Bill Bryson around the UK for Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island (2015) then moved to Poland to understand why everyone was leaving. A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland (2019) is the fruit of that unusual migration. For The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders (2020), the author went on six package coach holidays - Scarborough, Llandudno, Lake Como et al - with people twice or thrice his age in order to see what they had to say for themselves and to narrow the generation gap a notch. The Marmalade Diaries (2022) (one of our bookclub books) is the story of an unlikely friendship during an unlikely time, and stems from the author’s decision to move in with an 85 year old widow ten days before a…
Tickets
CTAM Ben Aitken
£10.00+£0.25 service fee
Total
£0.00