Are We nearly there yet?

Author(s): Ben Hatch

Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue

Era(s): Modern

Location

Content

If you think writing a guidebook is easy, think again! ‘A family’s 8,000 miles round Britain in a Vauxhall Astra’ they were bored, broke, burned out and turning 40, so when Ben and Dinah saw the advert looking for a husband and wife team with young kids to write a guidebook about family travel around Britain, they jumped at the chance. With naive visions of staring moodily across Coniston Water and savouring Cornish pasties, they embark on a mad-cap five-month trip with daughter Phoebe, four, and son Charlie, two, embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes.

Review this Book

To review this book, please

Latest Blogs

Talking Location With …. Sarah Holding: ICELAND

28th April 2026

#TalkingLocationWith …. Sarah Holding: Iceland Road to True North, which came out in September 2025, is a moody coming...

Novel set on CORFU

27th April 2026

One Last Greek Summer by Mandy Baggot, novel set on CORFU #fromourbookshelves You can really tell that the author...

Novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING (London)

24th April 2026

A beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kyriacou, novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING This novel underlines the...

Novel set in rural Lincolnshire

23rd April 2026

Paper Sisters by Rachel Canwell, novel set in rural Lincolnshire Paper Sisters by Rachel Canwell is beautifully written and...

Coming-of-Age novel set on Mudeford Spit, DORSET

22nd April 2026

The First Act of Summer by Joanna Glen, coming-of-age novel set on Mudeford Spit, Dorset Hester is about to...

The Cherokee perspective: A novel of ambition and dislocation USA

21st April 2026

To The Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage – The Cherokee perspective: a novel of ambition and dislocation USA...

Book Reviews

Lead Review

“A wonderful book. Terribly moving and so so funny.” Richard Briers

Read review

Travelling with tiny peeps

Author: Isabella Orff

This captures so well the trials and tribulations of travelling – one family packed into a car with two small children under school age. Frommers, the travel guide people, are looking for a family to tour England looking at,...