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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Well this is a jolly nice way to start the week (and to end a review)... "This is a wonderful book, packed with detail and knowledge but also intuition, warmth and infectious enthusiasm” #LookCloser. literaryreview.co.uk/between…
Thrilled to receive this endorsement from the brilliant Sir Stephen Fry, a generous reader as well as a writer with a brain the size of a planet. LOOK CLOSER: HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF READING is out this Thursday. amazon.co.uk/Look-Closer-How…
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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…
Coming on November 6… LOOK CLOSER: HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF READING (Fern Press), available from your local bookshop.
As my new book (out on Nov 6) is basically a mixture of serious criticism and silly jokes, I am now kicking myself for not calling it Leavis and Butthead.
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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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Ta-dah… My new book, coming in November. (Pictured: Marilyn Monroe getting lost in Joyce’s Ulysses, or possibly discovering herself there.) Details on Instagram at robertdouglasfairhurst and fernpress.
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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.
✍️ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Sex, sensible clothes, and tea at 4pm every day: my piece about a very British cult. telegraph.co.uk/books/author…
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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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