Dr Tim Rideout

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 😊

And the next book…

A Conceit
by Maya Angelou

Give me your hand

Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

For me
Give me your hand.

Still light, at 6pm. The long dark nights are coming. But not quite yet.

Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea
And still the sea is salt.

A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

The Mercy Step: Marcia Hutchinson in conversation with Tim Rideout - Lincoln Arts Centre Loosely inspired by Marcia Hutchinson’s childhood in Bradford as the middle child of a Windrush era...

One of the highlights of my literary year will be my ‘in conversation’ session with Marcia Hutchinson at this year’s Lincoln Book Festival. Marcia’s solo literary debut, ‘The Mercy Step’, has been widely praised.

Do join us! Tickets are available at: lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/the-me...

MAXIMUM POWER!

Very happy with today’s post ❤️

#Blakes7 #Liberator

Crime Fiction Panel Saturday, 4th October 7:30pm Lincoln Arts Centre 8 / 5 per ticket Join us for a deliciously dark event celebrating all things literary crime as we bring… BOOK TICKETS What to expect at this event Join us for a deliciously dark event celebrating all things literary crime as we bring together an exciting panel of authors in the genre. Featuring Jack Cartwright, Philippa East and Tom Mead. Hosted by Tim Rideout. £8 // Live Pass £5

Cannot wait for this! Do come join me, @drtim @tommeadauthor.bsky.social and #JackCarteright for an evening of Crime (writing) on Saturday 4th October in Lincoln.
This #LincolnBookFestival event will also be streamed online 👍👍👍
Grab your tickets here!
lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro...

Dark Humour in The Gothic ~ Episode 4 Join me as I talk to Paul Magrs about his wonderfully humorous series of novels, The Brenda and Effie Mysteries.Paul also has his own youtube channel which you can find here.If you would like to meet ...

Wonderful celebration of @paulmagrs.bsky.social⁦‪‬⁩ Brenda & Effie novels on @essiefox.bsky.social brilliant podcast (and a little bit of Doctor Who 🖤).

I'm listening to TALKING THE GOTHIC | Dark Humour in The Gothic ~ Episode 4 on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ei/dir-iceeb...

Autumn’s eve at Lincoln Cathedral.

Done!

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They currently have three FREE workshops and groups running for adults in #Lincolnshire

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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-...

‘Rideout’s Gothic Precarity is a lucid, excellent and quietly impassioned study, advancing a new appreciation of the Gothic in contemporary world fiction. Historically informed and geographically wide ranging, it deftly shows how the concerns of Gothic literature can illuminate the disturbing and destructive effects of neoliberalism, with particular attention to the emergence of “a new social class”, the precariat.’ Nicholas Royle, author of ‘The uncanny’ (2003)

'Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction' by @drtimrideout.bsky.social offers a ground-breaking examination of the Gothic mode's conceptual affinity with notions of neoliberal precarity.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

‘I was a slum goddess and in college. He looked something like Richard Burton; I resembled Liz.’

A series of encounters that are funny, strange, unrelenting and, in my view, simply sad. A desire for connection met with odd mundanity and distance. In other words, life. Unsparing and brilliant.

Ordered immediately. A series that has never let me down - always superb 🖤

BACK TO IT…

The nights are drawing in (🥲) so I gain solace from returning to my @openuniversity.bsky.social studies.

It’s the second year of Politics, Philosophy & Economics (PPE): Understanding Politics 😊

Audio accompaniment: Harry Christophers and The Sixteen - The Deer’s Cry ❤️

Thank you!

Gothic Precarity | UWP

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-...

Huge thanks to Gill Hart and Sasha Drennan for the party yesterday evening to launch my book, Gothic Precarity, at @LindumBooks.

Lovely to see so many kind friends celebrating publication ❤️

#GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social

THE BLEEDING TREE by Hollie Starling

Starting my autumn reading slightly earlier this year.

I struggle with the shortening days and the seemingly endless autumn/winter nights. Reading helps me, particularly reading to a defined rhythm or pattern, so I’ve been saving this book just for this moment.

Lincoln, as the season turns and the sun sets.

What a great programme of forthcoming literary interviews and events ❤️🙏

Today’s novel: LA MADRE (1920)

Written by Nobel Prize winner Grazia Deledda in the verismo style.

Buongiorno. Last day at Chia.

The sun sets on our last evening in Chia, Sardegna.