Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, writer, professor of English literature and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Look Closer to be published on 6 November.
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Look Closer by @RobertDFBooks is already looking like one of the books of the year. Each page demands annotation.
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Happy publication day, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst! 🥳 I recommend Look Closer to anyone interested in how literature works (and how being human works). It is the perfect present for any A-Level or undergraduate English lit students, too! Go go go!
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Wonderful review of Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's wonderful book on How to Get More Out of Reading.
"it is like walking behind a wise old naturalist who, in leisurely flipping over rocks, reveals a whole other reality beyond the immediately visible."
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My @spectator review of Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading — in which, like a wise old naturalist leisurely flipping over rocks, he reveals a whole other reality beyond the immediately visible: spectator.co.uk/article/even…
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.@fernbooks has acquired Look Closer by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. The book will be published on 6th November 2025 👇 ebx.sh/r4AnkK
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Although they never met, a new exhibition puts Austen and Turner in conversation with each other.
✍️ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Dickens was as confused about the world and his place in it as most of his readers. The key difference was that he transformed his confusion into art.
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'I sat down to watch twenty-five of the top-grossing Hollywood comedies from the past thirty years. It wasn’t as much fun as I’d hoped.'
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: Funny business
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Prof Robert Douglas-Fairhurst features on this @BBCRadio4 programme on #Orwell vs #Kafka exploring 'powerlessness' bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00201s…
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A treasure trove of forgotten history: this is gay London like you’ve never seen it before.
'At once heartfelt and hilarious' @RobertDFBooks
#TheDiariesOfMrLucas
@hugo_greenhalgh, out now.
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ALT 'At once heartfelt and hilarious, Hugo Greenhalgh's selection from Mr Lucas's diaries offers a sympathetic and occasionally steamed-up window onto a previously hidden world' Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of The Story of Alice
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Thank you @Dauntbooks Summertown for letting me interview @RobertDFBooks last night, for the paperback launch of Metamorphosis! Look what a great time I had. Everyone should get this book, to change the way they live and read
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THIS WEEK! Tickets are just a fiver to see genius @RobertDFBooks in convo with me at @Dauntbooks Summertown (Oxford) 📚
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Listen to Magdalen Fellow @RobertDFBooks talk to Melvyn Bragg about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on In Our Time @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w7…
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Can’t wait to pop into Oxford in a few weeks, to talk to my friend @RobertDFBooks about this incredible book! It will be out in paperback that day! Find us at Summertown @Dauntbooks:
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On Wednesday, at Oxford University, I talked about storytelling across different media in my role as Visiting Professor Of Creative Media. And yes, that's me that is.
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Registration is now open for @Baddiel's talk as this year's Visiting Professor of Creative Media. He will be in conversation with Prof Robert Douglas-Fairhurst discussing storytelling across different media. Tickets free but booking required. All welcome! davidbaddiel.eventbrite.co.u…
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Backstage at #NineLessons this year we asked all the performers to give us their favourite books of the year. First up, it's @officialnhaynes with a recommendation of @RobertDFBooks and @EmilyRCWilson.
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Here's your chance to listen to "Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" for 50% off! Discount ends 12/11. @RobertDFBooks audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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In Zadie Smith's new novel she introduces us to William Harrison Ainsworth, bestselling rival to Dickens. @RobertDFBooks has written a fun and enlightening piece about 8 forgotten Victorian blockbusters. Enjoy thetimes.co.uk/article/charl…
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Just one more week of the early bird price for tickets to our MS Summit: Empowering Patients, Inspiring Change on Saturday November 25th in Sheffield.
Ticket purchase link here:
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