Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Praise for Look Closer
Reading Look Closer is akin to wandering through an art gallery with an expert on painterly detail by your side: you see familiar shapes afresh and are introduced to new artists along the way
Financial Times
Absorbing, inspiring, open-hearted and welcoming, Look Closer is the best book about reading I have read for a very, very long time. Brilliantly clever without being even remotely academical or ...
Stephen Fry
A welcome intervention in the alarming decline of literacy . . . Douglas-Fairhurst is like that one teacher we had at school who, despite the years, was still hopelessly in love with their subject
The Spectator
Reading Look Closer is akin to wandering through an art gallery with an expert on painterly detail by your side: you see familiar shapes afresh and are introduced to new artists along the way
Financial Times
Absorbing, inspiring, open-hearted and welcoming, Look Closer is the best book about reading I have read for a very, very long time. Brilliantly clever without being even remotely academical or ...
Stephen Fry
A welcome intervention in the alarming decline of literacy . . . Douglas-Fairhurst is like that one teacher we had at school who, despite the years, was still hopelessly in love with their subject
The Spectator
Reading Look Closer is akin to wandering through an art gallery with an expert on painterly detail by your side: you see familiar shapes afresh and are introduced to new artists along the way
Financial Times
Absorbing, inspiring, open-hearted and welcoming, Look Closer is the best book about reading I have read for a very, very long time. Brilliantly clever without being even remotely academical or ...
Stephen Fry
A welcome intervention in the alarming decline of literacy . . . Douglas-Fairhurst is like that one teacher we had at school who, despite the years, was still hopelessly in love with their subject
The Spectator
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