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Readers who finished Coasting by Jonathan Raban and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by European Studies, Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Ecosystems & Habitats, and Essays & Travelogues.

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Themes: European Studies • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Coastal Regions & Shorelines • Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays & Travelogues

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

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Themes: European Studies • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Ethnic Studies

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Themes: Coastal Regions & Shorelines • Ecosystems & Habitats • Literary Figures

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Themes: Coastal Regions & Shorelines • Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays & Travelogues

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Themes: European Studies • Essays & Travelogues • Ethnic Studies

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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The Summer of a Dormouse

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Virginia Woolf in Richmond

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#16

White Hart Red Lion The England of Shakespeare’s Histories

Nick Asbury

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#18

London from Punk to Blair

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

#19

Drink Time! In the Company of Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

#20

Returning Light Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael

Robert L. Harris

Themes: Coastal Regions & Shorelines • Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays & Travelogues

#21

A Line in the World A Year on the North Sea Coast

Dorthe Nors

Themes: Coastal Regions & Shorelines • Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays & Travelogues

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Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Kathryn Hughes

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

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Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Great Britain

If Coasting by Jonathan Raban is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by European Studies, Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Ecosystems & Habitats and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Robert Mahony, Iain Sinclair, Adam Nicolson, Elspeth Huxley, and others.