In his new book, Philip Hoare seeks out various shorelines, examining our need to be immersed in water. Or at least to be near it.

To Scotland. To the North Sea. To Bass Rock: a 'wedding cake dropped into cold waters', where the bird life teems and where he thinks about light-houses, those built by the Stevensons.

Reader Tobias Menzies

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