Sophie Ratcliffe

Writer, academic, Oxford & LMH. Thinking abt reading/what libraries mean. My book, Loss, a Love Story out NOW with Northwestern UP. Views mine - she/her

[Public Books @PublicBooks]

With @n_j_dames, @soratcli discusses trying to avoid the imperative that seems to govern the exercise of thinking, writing, and research: that input must mean output, that hours spent traveling or reading must yield results. https://t.co/M1sdLTBejM

[Public Books @PublicBooks]

“The ethical work of the book itself is in acknowledging that this fictionalizing—this rendering of others as ‘creatures’—is inevitable, tempting, and also a kind of ethical failure.” https://t.co/EXDPfTtEU4

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

@EleanorMayBaker @n_j_dames Thank you so much Eleanor! Hope all is well with you x

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

So delighted to have the opportunity to have this conversation with the brilliant @n_j_dames in Public Books - just out today : https://t.co/Tj0VneCzOm

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

@paulajaynebyrne just woke and A told me. Oh Dearest P. Wonderful. Sending my love and hugs and more hugs xxxxxx

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

@paulajaynebyrne 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Andrew Schuman @AndrewSchuman]

Please, please give!!

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

My amazing former student is halfway there in his attempt to get a wheelchair that will give him the freedom he needs - if you can chip in, it would be amazing https://t.co/mEzcSV8nLu

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

In his own words

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[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

We will miss Chris so very much. Honoured to be at his memorial yesterday and to hear @AndrewSchuman give this eulogy about his beloved colleague and friend

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Fabulous to be at the launch of this brilliant venture this evening

[Truda Spruyt FRSA @TrudaSpruyt]

My news: The Bookseller - News - Truda Spruyt launches new PR and marketing agency Collective Wisdom https://t.co/BdOrrAH7zM

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Looking, tonight, at the Departures board at Paddington Station, remembering other leave takings - this one 36 years ago today

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Oh how I love Autumn Journal. Nearly as much as I love Train to Dublin

[Backlisted Podcast @BacklistedPod]

New old episode up now. Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with guests Sam West @exitthelemming and Sophie Ratcliff @soratcli and a newly recorded introduction from @i_am_mill_i_am @johnmitchinson and @birchos. 📱🍂 https://t.co/FrV7v99Uly

[Arabella Pike @ArabellaPike]

Happy Paperback publication day @CatJarman - Open up those bone chests, people. There's a treasure of medieval history inside @WmCollinsBooks

[John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson]

As the mornings freshen, a classic @BacklistedPod - Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with matchless readings by Samuel West (@exitthelemming) + lit context from Prof Sophie Ratcliffe (@soratcli). And a six year's younger me, @i_am_mill_i_am and @birchos. https://t.co/Gm7myWBeAN