Dr Tim Rideout
@drtimrideout.bsky.social
Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
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Dr Tim Rideout
@drtimrideout.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Gothic Precarity | UWP
www.uwp.co.uk
PUBLICATION DAY!
I am delighted to announce that Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction is published today!
The Gothic has always been a literature of unease, but today it feels especially urgent.
@uniwalespress.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
I am delighted to announce that Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction is published today!
The Gothic has always been a literature of unease, but today it feels especially urgent.
@uniwalespress.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
It all began, 62 years ago today. The greatest TV show ever made. I have always loved it. I will always love it. How much this funny little show has given me. So much joy, so many good friends.
Happy Doctor Who day everyone ❤️
#DoctorWhoDay
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Happy Doctor Who day everyone ❤️
#DoctorWhoDay
youtu.be/lg5WPOCPyxQ?...
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child - The TARDIS first appearance
YouTube video by Doctor Whovians
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November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It all began, 62 years ago today. The greatest TV show ever made. I have always loved it. I will always love it. How much this funny little show has given me. So much joy, so many good friends.
Happy Doctor Who day everyone ❤️
#DoctorWhoDay
youtu.be/lg5WPOCPyxQ?...
Happy Doctor Who day everyone ❤️
#DoctorWhoDay
youtu.be/lg5WPOCPyxQ?...
Uncanny, Gothic Venezia has my heart.
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Uncanny, Gothic Venezia has my heart.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Latest arrival from @goldsborobooks.bsky.social
THE BOOK BINDER’S SECRET by A D Bell
Such a beautiful and inviting book ❤️
@HarperCollinsUK @HarperCollins
THE BOOK BINDER’S SECRET by A D Bell
Such a beautiful and inviting book ❤️
@HarperCollinsUK @HarperCollins
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Latest arrival from @goldsborobooks.bsky.social
THE BOOK BINDER’S SECRET by A D Bell
Such a beautiful and inviting book ❤️
@HarperCollinsUK @HarperCollins
THE BOOK BINDER’S SECRET by A D Bell
Such a beautiful and inviting book ❤️
@HarperCollinsUK @HarperCollins
My new bedtime book, as recommended by @sarahhilary.bsky.social
MISSING PERSON: ALICE by Simon Mason
Been saving this since Theakstons Crime Festival 😊
MISSING PERSON: ALICE by Simon Mason
Been saving this since Theakstons Crime Festival 😊
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My new bedtime book, as recommended by @sarahhilary.bsky.social
MISSING PERSON: ALICE by Simon Mason
Been saving this since Theakstons Crime Festival 😊
MISSING PERSON: ALICE by Simon Mason
Been saving this since Theakstons Crime Festival 😊
Autumn shadows, Lincoln.
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Autumn shadows, Lincoln.
Tonight’s film - Nic Roeg’s masterpiece DON’T LOOK NOW (1973) - in preparation for attending Venice Noir…
#daphnedumaurier #nicroeg #dontlooknow #Venice #VeniceNoir
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#daphnedumaurier #nicroeg #dontlooknow #Venice #VeniceNoir
eventbrite.com/cc/venice-noir…
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Tonight’s film - Nic Roeg’s masterpiece DON’T LOOK NOW (1973) - in preparation for attending Venice Noir…
#daphnedumaurier #nicroeg #dontlooknow #Venice #VeniceNoir
eventbrite.com/cc/venice-noir…
#daphnedumaurier #nicroeg #dontlooknow #Venice #VeniceNoir
eventbrite.com/cc/venice-noir…
This week saw my last literary interview of the year, chatting to the wonderful @essiefox.bsky.social about her dark, lyrical novel DANGEROUS.
My next event is scheduled for the beginning of February. Seems a long time off…
My next event is scheduled for the beginning of February. Seems a long time off…
a black and white photo of a young boy with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a black and white photo of a young boy with his hand on his chin .
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This week saw my last literary interview of the year, chatting to the wonderful @essiefox.bsky.social about her dark, lyrical novel DANGEROUS.
My next event is scheduled for the beginning of February. Seems a long time off…
My next event is scheduled for the beginning of February. Seems a long time off…
Darkness falls on Lincoln’s windmill.
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Darkness falls on Lincoln’s windmill.
ASTERIX IN LUSITANIA
Just brilliant! Funny, heartwarming, politically subversive and joyous. Loved it.
Deli Furtado! Genius ❤️
Just brilliant! Funny, heartwarming, politically subversive and joyous. Loved it.
Deli Furtado! Genius ❤️
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ASTERIX IN LUSITANIA
Just brilliant! Funny, heartwarming, politically subversive and joyous. Loved it.
Deli Furtado! Genius ❤️
Just brilliant! Funny, heartwarming, politically subversive and joyous. Loved it.
Deli Furtado! Genius ❤️
Every year, to cope with the long, dark evenings, I set myself a reading challenge, to begin the day the clocks go back and to end when they go forward and the light returns.
This year I plan to read the Frederica Quartet of novels by A S Byatt, beginning with THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN.
This year I plan to read the Frederica Quartet of novels by A S Byatt, beginning with THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN.
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Every year, to cope with the long, dark evenings, I set myself a reading challenge, to begin the day the clocks go back and to end when they go forward and the light returns.
This year I plan to read the Frederica Quartet of novels by A S Byatt, beginning with THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN.
This year I plan to read the Frederica Quartet of novels by A S Byatt, beginning with THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN.
Reposted by Dr Tim Rideout
#LordByron turning detective? In Venice? Yes please.
@essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇
@bars.bsky.social
#romanticism
@essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇
@bars.bsky.social
#romanticism
What’s On – The Book Case
www.thebookcase.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#LordByron turning detective? In Venice? Yes please.
@essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇
@bars.bsky.social
#romanticism
@essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇
@bars.bsky.social
#romanticism
Reposted by Dr Tim Rideout
For this spectral #BookWormSat here’s a thread of ghostly revenge stories! Cynthia Asquith's "The Playfellow" first appeared in SHUDDERS (1929). A family inherits an ancestral house, and the malevolent ghostly child who comes with it.
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
For this spectral #BookWormSat here’s a thread of ghostly revenge stories! Cynthia Asquith's "The Playfellow" first appeared in SHUDDERS (1929). A family inherits an ancestral house, and the malevolent ghostly child who comes with it.
When I was boy I would buy my Asterix books in Wells (a bus trip from Glastonbury on a Saturday morning).
Guess what I did today.
Guess what I did today.
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
When I was boy I would buy my Asterix books in Wells (a bus trip from Glastonbury on a Saturday morning).
Guess what I did today.
Guess what I did today.
Reposted by Dr Tim Rideout
Good people of Yeovil!
Come along to Westlands tonight at 6pm! I’ll be talking all things India and crime and it’s going to be funny! Click on the link for tickets!
www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all...
Come along to Westlands tonight at 6pm! I’ll be talking all things India and crime and it’s going to be funny! Click on the link for tickets!
www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all...
Abir Mukherjee
www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Good people of Yeovil!
Come along to Westlands tonight at 6pm! I’ll be talking all things India and crime and it’s going to be funny! Click on the link for tickets!
www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all...
Come along to Westlands tonight at 6pm! I’ll be talking all things India and crime and it’s going to be funny! Click on the link for tickets!
www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all...
Reposted by Dr Tim Rideout
So pleased to have got my hands on this fantastic book by the brilliant @drtimrideout.bsky.social
#GothicPrecarity is going to be a great resource in my horror writing.
Available from all great bookshops, including here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goth...
#GothicPrecarity is going to be a great resource in my horror writing.
Available from all great bookshops, including here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goth...
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
So pleased to have got my hands on this fantastic book by the brilliant @drtimrideout.bsky.social
#GothicPrecarity is going to be a great resource in my horror writing.
Available from all great bookshops, including here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goth...
#GothicPrecarity is going to be a great resource in my horror writing.
Available from all great bookshops, including here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goth...
A wet Sunday afternoon in October finds me back at my studies…
#UnderstandingPolitics @openuniversity.bsky.social
#UnderstandingPolitics @openuniversity.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A wet Sunday afternoon in October finds me back at my studies…
#UnderstandingPolitics @openuniversity.bsky.social
#UnderstandingPolitics @openuniversity.bsky.social
‘When you knew that it was over, you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair.’
Michel Legrand
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair.’
Michel Legrand
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘When you knew that it was over, you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair.’
Michel Legrand
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair.’
Michel Legrand
THE DROWNING PLACE by @sarahhilary.bsky.social
Starting reading this evening. Sarah is one the best in the business; I know I’m in for a dark treat 🖤
#TheDrowningPlace #HarvillBooks
Starting reading this evening. Sarah is one the best in the business; I know I’m in for a dark treat 🖤
#TheDrowningPlace #HarvillBooks
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
THE DROWNING PLACE by @sarahhilary.bsky.social
Starting reading this evening. Sarah is one the best in the business; I know I’m in for a dark treat 🖤
#TheDrowningPlace #HarvillBooks
Starting reading this evening. Sarah is one the best in the business; I know I’m in for a dark treat 🖤
#TheDrowningPlace #HarvillBooks
I always like to mark #bookshopday
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
#booksaremybag #BookshopDay #ChooseBookshops
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
#booksaremybag #BookshopDay #ChooseBookshops
October 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I always like to mark #bookshopday
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
#booksaremybag #BookshopDay #ChooseBookshops
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
#booksaremybag #BookshopDay #ChooseBookshops
I always like to mark #bookshopday
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I always like to mark #bookshopday
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
This year, it’s with a visit to Bailey Hill Bookshop in Castle Cary 😊
Very pleased to have reached the fourth series in my Bergerac re-watch 😊
October 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Very pleased to have reached the fourth series in my Bergerac re-watch 😊
A lovely evening in Doncaster chatting to @davidjhowe.bsky.social about his charming and uplifting memoir, WHO ME!
Great to see @samanthaleehowe.bsky.social too 😊
#Dalek #DoctorWho #WhoMe @waterstonesdon.bsky.social
Great to see @samanthaleehowe.bsky.social too 😊
#Dalek #DoctorWho #WhoMe @waterstonesdon.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A lovely evening in Doncaster chatting to @davidjhowe.bsky.social about his charming and uplifting memoir, WHO ME!
Great to see @samanthaleehowe.bsky.social too 😊
#Dalek #DoctorWho #WhoMe @waterstonesdon.bsky.social
Great to see @samanthaleehowe.bsky.social too 😊
#Dalek #DoctorWho #WhoMe @waterstonesdon.bsky.social
Lincoln’s windmill, at the setting of the sun.
October 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Lincoln’s windmill, at the setting of the sun.