num_pages: 356
description: 'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross talkRADIONot 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. 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 of - Poznan. This candid funny and off-beat book is the account of his year in Poland as an unlikely immigrant. Between peeling potatoes and boning fish Ben spent time on the road travelling the country. He missed the bus to Auschwitz; stayed with a dozen nuns near Krakow; was offered a job by a Eurosceptic farmer and went to Gdansk to learn how communism got the chop. This is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country challenging stereotypes that Poland is a grey ex-soviet land and revealing a diverse country rightfully proud of its colourful identity.
language: English
title: A Chip Shop in Poznań
publisher: Icon Books