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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
24 Nov 2025
Look Closer by @RobertDFBooks is already looking like one of the books of the year. Each page demands annotation.
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
6 Nov 2025
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…
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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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
30 Oct 2025
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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
30 Oct 2025
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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18 Oct 2025
Coming on November 6… LOOK CLOSER: HOW TO GET MORE OUT OF READING (Fern Press), available from your local bookshop.
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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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
3 Jul 2025
.@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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
15 May 2025
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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Official retweeted
20 Feb 2025
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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18 Nov 2024
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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Has anyone tried turning America off and then turning it back on again?
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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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Funny business
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines the evolving face of Hollywood comedies
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12 Jul 2024
Olé Watkins (copyright every headline writer if he scores the winner on Sunday).
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