Book Club | Longname Family

The Longname Family Book Club where we share book titles that have highlighted, encouraged and brought us inspiration about family travel. This happy little nook is for those with aspirations of travelling abroad with their own family. We are sharing everything from how to guides, captivating novels, and inspiring biographies to enchanting children's travel books. Feel free to drop us a line to offer suggestions on titles we might enjoy.

Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy By Kate Langbroek

Deliciously funny, insightful and often deeply moving, Ciao Bella! is Kate’s love letter to Italy and her family. It is also a glorious reminder of what Italians can teach us about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. This edition includes new bonus content – Kate's recipe for happiness – oh and a recipe for the perfect Ragu alla Bolognese!

Pardon My French Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France By Rachael Mogan McIntosh

Pardon My French is a candid, hilarious love letter to family life and France with three valuable lessons for overcoming adversity: make home a beautiful nest, lean into the tough lessons and look for the comedy in everything.

One Italian Summer Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life By Pip Williams

One Italian Summer is a warm, funny and often poignant story of a family's search for a better way of living in the homes and on the farms of strangers. Pip sleeps in a woodshed, feasts under a Tuscan sun, works like a tractor in Calabria and, eventually, finds her dream - though it's not at all the one she expected.

Road to Rouen By Ben Hatch

Funny and poignant, Road to Rouen asks important questions about life, marriage and whether it's ever acceptable to tape baguette to your children's legs to smuggle lunch into Disneyland Paris.

Backyard to Backpack By: Evie Farrell

Backyard to Backpack is the inspirational true story that will have you asking yourself, what might be if you took a chance, stepped off the path of expectation and created your own adventure?

We Came, We Saw, We Left A Family Gap Year By: Charles Wheelan

What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"-and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic-We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family's gap-year experiment.