Dr Tim Rideout
@TimRideout1
Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
The day has arrived! ‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’ is now available to pre-order. We live in Gothic times. Gothic Precarity | UWP uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-pr…
Cannot adequately express how absolutely bloody delighted I am to be starting this book so I will leave it there. Blood Like Ours by @stuartneville Out August 28th from @simonschusterUK amazon.co.uk/Blood-Like-Our… #books #booktwitter #amreading #bloodlikeours
Hannah Hampton has no depth perception. She had multiple operations on her eyes before she was 5 years old. She was told she’d never play professional sport. What she’s just done defies description, medical science, anything else you can name. A phenomenal human being. 🥲
🏴 England star Michelle Agyemang is the #WEURO2025 Young Player of the Tournament 💫
A timely reminder of who we are as a nation when we’re at our best: determined, inclusive, supportive, relentless, fair, unbeatable. Thank you @Lionesses #England #Lionesses2025 #Euros2025 #EurosFinal
Come on @Baddiel & @TheFrankSkinner Time for a new version 🙏 #ThreeLions #nomoreyearsofhurt #Lionesses @Lionesses
They’ve only gone and done it. Again! Magnificent! Never give in. Never ever give up. The first England football team to win abroad. A sublime moment. Legends. #Lionesses
Well, that was unexpected. I wandered into an Oxford graveyard and this was the first inscription I read. Tears in my eyes.
Thanks to @bertsbooks for another order delivered. Finding it tied in a ribbon just makes me smile. Can't wait to get started,no doubt @willrdean has written another outstanding book for me to enjoy.📚
I’m in the University of Wales Press Autumn 2025 catalogue, amid very impressive company 😊 Certainly brightened a quiet Saturday evening ❤️ #Gothic #GothicPrecarity #precarity #neoliberalism @UniWalesPress uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/We…
Tonight’s viewing & listening - just joyous! ❤️ #Vilvaldi #Bach @thekatiederham @hannahcfrench @bbcproms #proms bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
I genuinely screamed when I opened my #bookpost this morning. Thank you to @katherinecrime and @stuartneville for sending this gorgeous hardback. Blood Like Mine was my most recommended book last year. Can't wait to sink my teeth into Blood Like Ours - see what I did there?! 🧛♀️
If you're enjoying #Bookish then may I recommend this? I kill people in the country as well as the town. Can you crack the cipher? Work out whodunit? [The pitch: Hart to Hart meets Went the Day Well in the New Forest, summer of 1945.]
Look, here it is all wrapped in ivy. The New Forest Murders. Out now. simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-New-…
👀 COVER REVEAL: my new book, TROUBLEMAKER is out next January. It’s on the theme of the girl who cried wolf. How do you solve a murder when no one believes it took place? And now the killer has their sights set on YOU… Available to preorder now: bit.ly/4mbmWKj
We couldn't put #HomeBeforeadark down either! 'I´ve found the writing construction very unique. The spider´s web plot and the evolving dynamic between the characters made it into a story that´s hard to let down until is over.' Grab your copy of this CHILLING #Thriller today!
#HomeAfterDark by @evaaegisdottir @OrendaBooks #BlogTour wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2025/07/orenda… #penpals #psychologicalthriller #amreading #iceland
Byron had had a huge influence - through his own work, and through the imaginations of others. Including me.
"Byron’s afterlife presence is particularly reflected in the work of nineteenth-century women writers: Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, who remodelled the Byronic hero to satisfy the expectations of the Victorian reading public." Andrzej Diniejko