Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

A joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our lives. As an English literature professor, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has delighted in sharing his love of reading with his students. Bringing together more than twenty years of teaching, Look Closer explores the iconic works of literature that have formed, sustained and entertained him, from timeless classics like Wuthering Heights...

For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heartbreaking book about how to live. A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor. We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just...