Dan Richards for Overnight

We're delighted to welcome Dan Richards to Edinburgh to celebrate the paperback release of Overnight, an exploration of the night and the people found in it.

Richards' prose is witty, tender, and deeply humane.

We hope to see you there.There is something special about the night.For many, dusk and evening conjure thoughts of starlit skies, romance, bedtime stories and rest.

For others, the small hours mean fear, vulnerability and sleeplessness.

At night things go bump, the familiar world becomes mysterious and uncanny; owls and bats take wing, foxes prowl.With new material delving deeper into all things nocturnal, Overnight is a hymn to nighttime wildlife, travel, dreams and art.

Along the way, Dan Richards meets a fascinating array of people who labour while the rest of us sleep, and brings their work into the light.From night terror chills to the warmth of dawn on the summer solstice, Overnight will change the way you think about the hours after dark.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.