Magdalen Fellow Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has recently published a new book.
Robert’s book, Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading, is both a celebration of the works that have shaped him, from Wuthering Heights and Dracula to short stories and comics, and a guide to the simple techniques that can help us slow down and rediscover the pleasures of reading.
Stephen Fry called it “the best book about reading I have read for a very long time,” while Natalie Haynes described it as “a glittering gem of a book.”
Robert is a Professor of English Language and Literature with more than twenty years of teaching experience. His other books include, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, and Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces.