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Across Great Britain, Travel, Europe, and Biography & Autobiography — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Around the Peat-fire by Calum Smith.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

London Orbital — Iain Sinclair

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Clanlands in New Zealand Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under — Sam Heughan

Clanlands in New Zealand Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Henry VIII and His Six Wives A Guide to Historic Tudor Sites — Peter Bramley

Henry VIII and His Six Wives A Guide to Historic Tudor Sites

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

James Cook The Story Behind the Man who Mapped the World — Peter FitzSimons

James Cook The Story Behind the Man who Mapped the World

Peter FitzSimons

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Man of the World The Travels of Winston Churchill — Robin Cross

Man of the World The Travels of Winston Churchill

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

In the Footsteps of John Knox A Man of Fearless Faith — Andy Kuo

In the Footsteps of John Knox A Man of Fearless Faith

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

A Guide to Britain’s Royal Heritage — Jenny Barling

A Guide to Britain’s Royal Heritage

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

The Confessions of a Poacher 1890 The Nineteenth Century Reminiscences of an Exponent of the Fine Art of Poaching — John Watson

The Confessions of a Poacher 1890 The Nineteenth Century Reminiscences of an Exponent of the Fine Art of Poaching

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Downton Shabby One American’s Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family’s English Castle — Hopwood DePree

Downton Shabby One American’s Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family’s English Castle

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Burton A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton — Byron Farwell

Burton A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Clydeside Ties and Tales — Robert Spalding

Clydeside Ties and Tales

Robert Spalding

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Raw Spirit In Search of the Perfect Dram — Iain Banks

Raw Spirit In Search of the Perfect Dram

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Wigtown And Whithorn Historical And Descritptive Sketches, Stories And Anecdotes, Illustrative Of The Racy Wit & Pawky Humor Of The District — Gordon Fraser

Wigtown And Whithorn Historical And Descritptive Sketches, Stories And Anecdotes, Illustrative Of The Racy Wit & Pawky Humor Of The District

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin’s Extraordinary Adventure in Fitzroy’s Famous Survey Ship — James Taylor

The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin’s Extraordinary Adventure in Fitzroy’s Famous Survey Ship

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

England: The Autobiography 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw it Happen — John Lewis-Stempel

England: The Autobiography 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw it Happen

John Lewis-Stempel

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

The Secret Life of the Savoy And the D’Oyly Carte Family — Olivia Williams

The Secret Life of the Savoy And the D’Oyly Carte Family

Olivia Williams

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Red Sky at Sunrise Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War — Laurie Lee

Red Sky at Sunrise Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

A Companion & Guide to the Norman Conquest — Peter Bramley

A Companion & Guide to the Norman Conquest

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Notes from a Small Island — Bill Bryson

Notes from a Small Island

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist — Angela Steidele

Gentleman Jack A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

Angela Steidele

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Great-Uncle Harry A Tale of War and Empire — Michael Palin

Great-Uncle Harry A Tale of War and Empire

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

Edmund Campion Jesuit and Martyr — Evelyn Waugh

Edmund Campion Jesuit and Martyr

Themes: Great Britain • Travel • Europe

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Great Britain, Travel, Europe — the same threads that run through Around the Peat-fire by Calum Smith. Among the authors featured: Iain Sinclair, Sam Heughan, Peter Bramley, Peter FitzSimons, and others.

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