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If you loved The Tree by John Fowles, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Trees, Plants, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

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A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Antarctica in Fiction Imaginative Narratives of the Far South — Elizabeth Leane

Antarctica in Fiction Imaginative Narratives of the Far South

Elizabeth Leane

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

A History of Irish Literature and the Environment — Malcolm Sen

A History of Irish Literature and the Environment

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For — Henry Thoreau

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

The Oxford Book of the Sea — Jonathan Raban

The Oxford Book of the Sea

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration — Dan Brayton

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 — Joseph Fletcher

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

Joseph Fletcher

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Philocalia Elementary Essays On Natural, Poetic And Picturesque Beauty (1864) — William Purton

Philocalia Elementary Essays On Natural, Poetic And Picturesque Beauty (1864)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals) Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition — Jonathan Bate

Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals) Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

The Rural Tradition A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside — William Keith

The Rural Tradition A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm — Roger Deakin

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Coasting — Jonathan Raban

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

A Celebration of Birds — Robert Dougall

A Celebration of Birds

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Sweary Cats — Andrew Davies

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Writing the Thames — Christina Hardyment

Writing the Thames

Christina Hardyment

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Scottish Writing After Devolution Edges of the New — Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon

Scottish Writing After Devolution Edges of the New

Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time — Emma Phipson

The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Landscape and Literature — Stephen Siddall

Landscape and Literature

Stephen Siddall

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition — Hugh White

Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Life At Grasmere — Dorothy Wordsworth

Life At Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

The Light in the Dark A Winter Journal — Horatio Clare

The Light in the Dark A Winter Journal

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia — Michael Bintley

Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia

Michael Bintley

Themes: Plants • European • Nature

The Tree Book The Stories, Science, and History of Trees — DK

The Tree Book The Stories, Science, and History of Trees

Themes: Trees • Plants • Nature

Bob Ross Happy Little Zen Garden — ROBB. PEARLMAN

Bob Ross Happy Little Zen Garden — ROBB. PEARLMAN

Themes: Trees • Plants • Nature

Becoming a Gardener What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living — Catie Marron

Becoming a Gardener What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living

Themes: Trees • Plants • Nature

If The Tree by John Fowles is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Trees, Plants, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Elizabeth Leane, Malcolm Sen, Henry Thoreau, Jonathan Raban, and others.

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