Dr Tim Rideout

‘I could not shake myself free of the sense of everything around me dissolving slowly, of sinking slowly into deliquescence.’

Wilkie Collins and Henry James, written with a Chandleresque aesthetic, VENETIAN VESPERS immerses the reader in a bewildering Venice of treachery, manipulation and lies.

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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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Uncanny, Gothic Venezia has my heart.

Research.

SINNERS dir. by Ryan Coogler

#vampires #folkhorror #americanfolkhorror #precarity

My next bedtime book 🖤

VENETIAN VESPERS by John Banville

@faberbooks.bsky.social

Latest arrival from @goldsborobooks.bsky.social

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 😊

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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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…

Darkness falls on Lincoln’s windmill.

ASTERIX IN LUSITANIA

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.

#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

Black and white photo of Cynthia Asquith.

Orange cover with black bats of Shudders.

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.

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!

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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.

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Thank you so much! Just made my day 🙏

A wet Sunday afternoon in October finds me back at my studies…

#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

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

I always like to mark #bookshopday

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 😊

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

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.

Reading of Lincolnshire Last night I went back to where I was at Uni with the Lincoln book festival, listening to Jack Cartwright, Philippa East and Tom Mead. With this being the festival’s only crime panel I though…

I had a great time in Lincoln last night seeing @philippaeast.bsky.social, @tommeadauthor.bsky.social and @drtimrideout.bsky.social and #JackCartwright. Here's my review of Jack's book: hawleyreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r...

Always so good to chat with you, Philippa. Really looking forward to what comes next 😊