Books like Writing the sea by Cassie Brown

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

A complex romance where Lucy struggles to understand Matthew Fenn's shifting moods and hidden past, hoping to help him find true love.

Humour

Ian Urbina exposes the hidden world of ocean crime—from piracy to slave trade—revealing how the fishing, oil, and shipping industries fuel global exploitation.

A factual portrait of eight 19th‑ and 20th‑century maritime catastrophes, from the whale‑impaled Essex to the Titanic wreck and Andrian Thresher's 1963 loss.

A tale of survival and loss, Revenge of the Whale chronicles the harrowing experience of the Essex crew as they battled for their lives after their ship was sunk by a giant whale.

**This thrilling graphic novel, based on real events and which has been adapted into an AMC Plus miniseries (La Fortuna) starring Stanley Tucci, chronicles the intense legal and political battles sparked by the discovery of a priceless shipwreck.** May 2007. When an American treasure-hunting company uncovers a shipwreck containing the greatest underwater trove ever found, the world is captivated by their discovery. But over in Spain, a group of low-level government officials surmises that the sunken ship is in fact an ancient Spanish vessel. Thus begins a legal and political thriller, pitting a group of idealistic diplomats against a rich and powerfully connected treasure hunter, in which vital cultural artifacts and hundreds of millions of dollars hang in the balance.

Zen and Buddhism have often found a resonance with surfing ideals and way of life and enjoyed a mystique in surfing lingo, graphics and in films. This book melds Zen insights with surf wisdom and stories in a clear, confiding, and frequently humerous voice. Fed up with his suburban teenage life, at age sixteen Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's book Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His wandering, searching journey is a coming-of-age tale that takes him from Hawaiian communes to French monasteries to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is his chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave. Trying to find Zen in the rhythmic crashing of waves, Jaimal eventually discovers something of eternal truth in the great salty blue.