Overnight by Dan Richards

Overnight by Dan Richards

An exploration of night - the nocturnal world, insomnia, the creative potential of the dark hours, the work that happens at night to keep the modern world moving - by Sunday Times bestselling author Dan Richards

The height of crafted eloquence -- SAMANTHA HARVEY
Creatures of the night rejoice - this is the book we've been waiting for! A truly addictive read -- KEVIN BARRY
A revelatory journey into the teeming life of the nightMoving, engrossing, essential -- KATHERINE MAY
I loved Overnight. It is both gripping and consoling, and full of an intelligent, querying tenderness for its subjects. I was never sure whether I'd be moved to laughter or tears: often, it was both, and in the end I was sad to leave Richards' humane and witty company -- SARAH PERRY
In Overnight, Dan Richards introduces us to the shadowy, starlit world of postal workers, night nurses, twenty-four-hour industry, late night radio, search and rescue. We meet desperate rough sleepers, racing demons, new mothers . . . and what shines through most clearly is the humour and the pathos, the remarkable diversity in what it means to live, to work, to love. A lucid dream of a book, one that will keep you up late reading -- CAL FLYN
Dan Richards' writing spans great gulfs of emotion and experience. He is witty and profound and his curiosity and empathy know no bounds. He takes us deep into the night and brings it utterly alive. He fills that space in our dreams with the reality - of what goes on when the sun goes down -- PHILIP HOARE
A moving and sympathetic mix of the personal and the observational. Dan Richards captures that out-of-time, dislocated, slightly surreal quality that wakeful overnight hours possess, whatever the cause. By turns emotionally raw, fascinating and even a little spooky -- KASSIA ST CLAIR
In Overnight, Richards casts the night and its many activities anew to create a book offering a rare type of solace. I've been almost pathologically afraid of the dark my entire life, but Overnight is a kaleidoscopic book, illuminating at every turn dark corners of both the night and our collective minds, until the idea of darkness became appealing, even to me -- ALI MILLAR
Overnight takes us to hidden worlds that lie so far from most of our daily lives, but exist in such proximity to them. Dan Richards is an excellent guide, and this is a hugely fascinating, funny and moving book -- CHRIS POWER
Overnight is a glorious and generous book. Dan Richards' journey into night is heart-warming, enriching and inspiring. How can you be afraid of the dark with this book in your life, inside these pages is the hope before first light -- SALENA GODDEN

Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood), and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing Days, Outpost and Overnight. Only After Dark, a BBC Radio 4 series about the nocturnal world, was broadcast to acclaim in 2022. Dan has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Economist and Esquire.

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SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781838857509
ISBN 10	1838857508
Title	Overnight
Author	Dan Richards
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2025-03-27
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.