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)
https://www.precariousgothic.com
https://www.precariousgothic.com
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
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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…
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.
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.
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.
With Hitchcockian skill, @philippaeast.bsky.social ensnares the reader in a complex web of fallible memory, psychological trauma and deadly secrets. A GUILTY SECRET exemplifies her ability to keep the reader on the edge of their seat as the past threatens to consume her protagonists’ present.
October 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
With Hitchcockian skill, @philippaeast.bsky.social ensnares the reader in a complex web of fallible memory, psychological trauma and deadly secrets. A GUILTY SECRET exemplifies her ability to keep the reader on the edge of their seat as the past threatens to consume her protagonists’ present.
And the next book…
October 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
And the next book…
Still light, at 6pm. The long dark nights are coming. But not quite yet.
September 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Still light, at 6pm. The long dark nights are coming. But not quite yet.
September 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Autumn’s eve at Lincoln Cathedral.
September 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Autumn’s eve at Lincoln Cathedral.
GOTHIC PRECARITY
Delighted with Professor Nicholas Royle’s endorsement of my first book, Gothic Precarity. His own work, on the uncanny, is a landmark text and informed my own research.
#Gothic #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
Delighted with Professor Nicholas Royle’s endorsement of my first book, Gothic Precarity. His own work, on the uncanny, is a landmark text and informed my own research.
#Gothic #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
GOTHIC PRECARITY
Delighted with Professor Nicholas Royle’s endorsement of my first book, Gothic Precarity. His own work, on the uncanny, is a landmark text and informed my own research.
#Gothic #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
Delighted with Professor Nicholas Royle’s endorsement of my first book, Gothic Precarity. His own work, on the uncanny, is a landmark text and informed my own research.
#Gothic #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...