Truck It! by Bobby Bolton

About the book: What do you do when you have lost everything? You bet it all on a mad idea.

After a broken heart and a bankrupt business left him at rock bottom, Bobby Bolton made a drunken promise in a Wigan pub: he was going to drive to Australia in a converted truck with his dog, Red.

He thought it would be a story of one man and his dog. 

How wrong he was.

Just weeks into his journey, a chance encounter with a beautiful hiker named Marie changed everything. After only two dates, she bravely joined him on the adventure of a lifetime, and their epic love story began.

But their new life on the road was forged in the face of constant danger:

- Bribing corrupt Russian police

- Surviving a mountain track collapse in Italy

- Being interrogated at a Taliban checkpoint

- Rescuing his new girlfriend from a 200-metre fall down a cliff face

Action-packed, hilarious, and full of Northern charm, Truck It! The Drive Around the World that Saved my Life (2025) is the inspirational true story of what happens when you leave it all behind and find love, adventure, and a reason to live again.

Truck It! The Drive Around the World that Saved my Life is a Sunday Times bestseller at No 5, as of 29 July 2025.

About the author: Bobby Bolton grew up in Wigan, a town in Greater Manchester, UK, before moving to London to start his career. By twenty-five, he had quit the 9 to 5 to pursue a dream he had nurtured since a teenager – to run his own business. With a passion for building, and a degree from Loughborough University and a few years’ experience with a property developer, he felt ready to take on the world and the challenges that lay ahead. Little did he know that before he was thirty, his heart would be broken, he would be homeless and near bankrupt. To turn his life around Bobby set out on a crazy adventure, selling all his possessions to buy a truck and drive from his home town of Wigan all the way to Australia. He documents the journey on Instagram as One.Life.Truck.It and now has almost 500,000 followers. Truck It! is Bobby's first memoir of his travels.