'What Aitken writes about fun is worth reading'
Mail on Sunday
'Irresistible' Christopher Somerville, author of
The January Man and
Walking the Bones of Britain
'A great book' Simon Rimmer, Sunday Brunch
'Aitken's writing is always a delight' Madeleine Bunting, author of
The Seaside
Are you getting enough?
Bestselling travel writer Ben Aitken wasn't.
Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, Ben gave boredom the boot and stress the cold shoulder by embarking on a whimsical journey into the serious business of having a laugh.
He did a pilgrimage in Spain, a summer camp in Kent, and a cruise of the Baltic with 2,000 grannies. And when he wasn't on the road, he searched for merriment at home: by giving bridge a go, volunteering a chance, and gardening a crack of the whip.
By incorporating the thoughts of key thinkers and boffins,
Here Comes the Fun offers a satisfying balance of the playful and the profound, the serious and the silly, the daft and the deep.
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
TravelTable of contents
- Cover
- 1 Fun is a funny thing alright
- 2 Silliness can go too far
- 3 To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness
- 4 Oh to possess once again that nine-year-old style!
- 5 I can’t lose the sight of myself
- 6 Never doubt yourself, people!
- 7 A pair of trousers that I would instantly remove in the event of finding myself in them
- 8 The gap between who we habitually are and who we actually are
- 9 A perfect harmony of despair and delirium, all wrapped up in glee
- 10 Fishing is essentially a satirical activity
- 11 The psychic benefits of novelty
- 12 The invisibility of what’s constant
- 13 A chance to re-evaluate what we value
- 14 A bearded man with an axe
- 15 The spurious privilege of options
- 16 An unfiltered version of everything you are
- 17 I almost pull a neck muscle trying to seem happy
- 18 The sort of person who embraces a sudden downpour
- 19 It might be helpful to consider life as a pie
- 20 Toward the foothills of euphoria
- Acknowledgements
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