Overnight by Dan Richards audiobook review – an immersive journey into the night worker’s world From bakers in London to night ferry operatives in Aberdeen, the author narrates atmospheric behind-the-scenes stories of the people who work while the world sleeps

Overnight by Dan Richards audiobook review – an immersive journey into the night worker’s world

Stanfords

Moonlight Express and Overnight

Overnight

Signed🦇

Another wonderful evening @stanfordstravel.bsky.social listening to @monisharajesh.bsky.social talking to @danzep.bsky.social about his new book … 📖

‘Overnight
Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark’

What a fascinating book it sounds.
Looking forward to reading 🦇

We’re keeping the lights for #Overnight event w/ @danzep.bsky.social 💡 good company + illuminating chat! Join us …

🗓️ Thurs 9th April
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cor...

@canongate.co.uk
@thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

8th April: Overnight –
Dan Richards @danzep.bsky.social joins fellow travel writer @monisharajesh.bsky.social to explore the world after dark. From night-climbing to star-gazing, they discuss his journey through the beauty and mystery of the nocturnal world.
www.stanfords.co.uk/event-overni...

Thank you, David.
Very much hope you enjoy it

Book “Overnight” by Dan Richards. Aerial view of a small harbour at night, showing dark water and darker shoreline, with a curve of bright yellow lights. Above, a pink-purple sky.

Final newly arrived treasure is this, a book I hadn’t meant to get but that I stumbled across at Wallingford Bookshop while buying the preceding. It’s Overnight, by Dan Richards @danzep.bsky.social. Emotionally, I’m enthralled by the night, by those awake in the hours while the rest of us sleep.

Paperback of the week: Overnight by Dan Richards Whether braving gales on a night ferry or joining early risers at a bakery, Richards’ engaging book illuminates the nocturnal workings of the nation

Thanks Chris Power for this wonderful review of Overnight - now online and in this Sunday’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social print edition

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

A paperback copy of Overnight by Dan Richards floating on top of a stack of books against a grey background

Overnight by @danzep.bsky.social is a stimulating exploration of night and all it brings – the nocturnal world, insomnia, the creative potential of the dark hours and the work that happens while most of us sleep.

‘By the book’s end, night has grown to seem vibrant and companionable’ Observer

Tickets are selling fast! 🚨 Don’t miss the upcoming paperback launch of Overnight by Dan Richards. Join @danzep.bsky.social in conversation with @monisharajesh.bsky.social on 8th April!

More info and tickets at this link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overnight-...

If you’d like to see if I’m witty and humane off the page, do join me at a bookshop near you soon!

#danrichards #overnight #paperback #canongatebooks #canongate

and Sarah Perry described the book as ‘both gripping & consoling, & 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, & in the end I was sad to leave Richards' humane and witty company…’ which is very lovely.

Thanks to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social, Katherine May et al for their kind words about the book.

Samantha Harvey has said that Overnight felt choral to her: ‘all those different nocturnal voices singing at the same time, and the cumulative effect of it is powerful and moving’…

To celebrate the paperback, I’m doing some events - first in Margate on March 18th, then at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in London (April 8th), Forum books Corbridge (April 9th) & Toppings Edinburgh (April 24th) with more dates to be announced.

Details can be found on my website - danrichards.uk

The paperback of Overnight is published this week on Thursday 12th. Thanks to everyone who supported the hardback. The updated edition has extra material and a beautiful new cover photograph taken on Skye by Nicholas J R White @nicholasjrwhite.bsky.social

Shadows & Reflections: @danzep.bsky.social reflects on a year of sharing stories of darkness and light www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/shad...

Choo-Choo-Cha-Boogie Lo-Co-Motion

'How fast are we going? Ten, 12 miles an hour? How amazing that must have been 200 years ago; as fast as a horse, but for miles and miles.'

@danzep.bsky.social takes a ride on the very first locomotive train.

www.the-fence.com/choo-choo-ch...

Candid photo of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill in a hotel room doing a loose re-creation of the poses from the original Star Wars theatrical poster, with Carrie holding cinnamon rolls up to her ears to mimic Leia’s iconic hairstyle…

A long time ago, in a hotel room far, far away…

Absolutely

Pilsdon Pen Looking out from the lower turf ramparts of Pilsdon Pen we sight a crescent moon of hills - a vein within a leaf spring - arcing to the coast. Somewhere in there lies our quarry; a lane diving into the dark. An inky eye, an ammonite. A hollow, foot-querned way. Turning away from the sea we begin to scale the hill. Over the stile, spiralling up between tussocks and gorse, stepping through the sudden cloud-line into thickly mantled murk. A lichen souper. Up until we clamber out on a floating island steppe - a layered mist rolling about our three glades in the fog. There is a trig: there, silent cattle; here, earthworks - mounds and humps. All elsewhere is milk. A void. We spread out to search our margins: Rob to the left, Stan to the right, me down the middle of the dim flat top. We do not orchestrate this trident sweep but each, finding himself alone, determines to carry on through the ether, round the worked ellipse, skirting the moat, to the point we'll surely converge.. on the edge of the fern-table brume. A fume quoit caught on this whittled marl peg.

Yeah this is one of those reads that’s quite lovely to read out loud

We’re recording the audiobook in the new year 👍

Quite right!
All best to you for Christmas and New Year & thanks again
Dan

Thank you!

Book Dude Book of the Day Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards Published by Canongate Books      There is something special abo...

#BookSky 💙📚 Book Dude Book of the Day
@danzep.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library

For anyone who missed the recent series of curated events by Jean Sprackland, you can watch back on the Manchester Poetry Library's YouTube site.
Find Helen McGhie and Dan Richards here:
@danzep.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoT...

Another wonderful evening of image, sound & writing from Manchester's Poetry Library last night, with Jean Sprackland's final event in her curated series Night Vision. A fantastic presentation of Helen McGhie's work & conversation & readings from @danzep.bsky.social - hosted by Andrew McMillan.

TONIGHT!

This piece is now up on my website – complete with ace pictures by Alice Morrissey & Owen Richards.

Vintage trains, the Night Mail, my grandfather's service on the Western TPOs – a journey that expands on stories in my recent book 'Overnight' @canongate.co.uk

www.danrichards.uk#steamdreams

Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie Writing and photography come together to reveal what really goes on after dark.

In the last event of the series, Jean Sprackland is joined by @danzep.bsky.social and Helen McGhie to discuss all things darkness and night time.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/night-visi...
#BookSky

Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie (ONLINE TICKET), 04 Dec 2025 Reading, Online

Thursday at Manchester Poetry Library - online link
Join Jean Sprackland for the third in her curated series of events at the Poetry Library for Night Vision. This week she is joined by the brilliant @danzep.bsky.social & Helen McGhie to talk all things darkness & night
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...