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
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‘Clouds, Cameras, and Courage’
Fascinating talk today about that maverick of early aerial photography, Alfred Buckham.
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'What's capturing your stray attention?'
So kind of Katherine May to feature Overnight on her substack. open.substack.com/pub/katherin... #katherinemay #overnight #danrichards
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#OnThisDay in 1942 #QualityComics #hero #Manhunter debuted in #PoliceComics #8 after #hisMentorIsFramedForMurder #policeCadet #DanRichards takes on this #costumedIdentity to prove his innocence #workingWithCanineSidekick #Thor later #DCComics -acquired 80s plot #hasThorRevealedAManhunterPlant
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I’ve written a piece for the Society of Authors’ magazine about my grandfather’s working life on the mail trains and the joy of hand-written letters and cards at Christmas. 🎄📮👍
#nightmail #mailtrains #royalmail #gpo #handwritten #overnight #christmascards #danrichards
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Day 19 - Overnight, Chapter 5
RESCUE 912
Search & Rescue, Humberside Airport, Lincolnshire, UK: August 2022
"The sea shall not have them”
#overnight #danrichards #hmcoastguard #rescue912 #humberside #searchandrescue
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Belated Day 18 - In August 2022, I spent 24 hours with Rescue 912 – HM Coastguard Search & Rescue helicopter crew in Humberside.
Here they are taking off around 00:30 to search for a man reported missing in fenland to the south.
#overnight #danrichards #hmcoastguard #rescue912 #searchandrescue
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Photographs from Pyramiden and Longyearbyen, Svalvard, Norway 🇳🇴 April 2018
#overnight #danrichards #svalbard #hopeinthedark #hope #light #iceland
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Worryingly, in the 18 months since my visit, bat numbers have tumbled and nobody is quite sure why…
#overnight #danrichards #greaterhorseshoebats
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/
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Day 14 - A few months after my first visit to Southampton Docks, the massive Ever Given container ship became suck fast in the Suez Canal.
‘The internet’ responded in a number of ways - I think this was my favourite
#overnight #danrichards #evergiven #suezcanal
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at the link below, for more voices and stories from that overnight shift including @bessbbe.bsky.social talking with great joy about driving the yard’s 08 shunter.
#overnight #danrichards #freightliner #southampton #southamptondocks #onlyafterdark #bbcradio4
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And here’s Day 12 - Straddle-carriers at Southampton Docks - 12th December 2020 - four years ago last night!
As heard on Only After Dark @bbcradio4.bsky.social
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#overnight #danrichards #freightliner #southampton #southamptondocks #onlyafterdark #bbcradio4
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Belated Day 11 - Finnish ice fishing bonus video - scooting around the Pellinge archipelago with Marie & Viking Kellgren on their fan-powered sled boat.
#overnight #danrichards #mariekellgren #moominlandmidwinter #moomins #tovejansson #pellinge #pellingearchipelago
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as happens in Moominland Midwinter; you would revel in the return of jolly, itinerant friends, just as Snufkin’s reappearance always augurs the thaw.’
#overnight #danrichards #moominlandmidwinter #moomins #tovejansson
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The blurb on the back of the book (second image above) gives some indication/foreshadowing of the darkness inside this classic ‘children’s’ book. 🥶
#overnight #danrichards #moominlandmidwinter #moomins #tovejansson
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Above 👆 are the first few pages. Pictured in this post are four of the albums mentioned.
#overnight #danrichards #discography #bonnieprincebilly #iseeadarkness #johncoltrane #johncoltraneandjohnnyhartman #echoandthebunnymen #thekillingmoon #oceanrain #nocturnalme #nickdrake #pinkmoon
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and look through the parts of Al’s archive relating to Night.
The most amazing, varied set of papers, notes, articles, & reviews - the Times photo essay about closure of Spitalfields caught my eye. Hopefully Vintage will republish Night soon
#overnight #danrichards #alalvarez #night #vintagebooks
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Day 6 - A little more about my grandfather’s life on the Bristol - Plymouth TPO
#overnight #danrichards #nightmail #mailtrain #tpo
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Having spent the previous evening drinking gin with @salenagodden.bsky.social, I remember feeling ‘delicate’ on arrival but Daisy Terry made me feel very welcome & sorted everything out with coffee & croissants 🥐👍
#overnght #danrichards #dustyknuckle #baking #bread #felicitycloake #croissants
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Poster for the Night Mail GPO documentary film of 1936
The ‘Night Mail’ chapter of Overnight contains more information about my grandfather’s work on the TPO and the Royal Mail trains which are sadly no more - the last having run in September.
Thanks to Vintage Trains
#overnght #danrichards #york #nightmail #vintagetrains #5043earlofmountedgcumbe
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Day 3 - A conversation with Michael Fassbender at 24h Le Mans, 2023, where he was racing a Porsche 911 in the GTE-Am category. Here he talks about night driving + the similarities between acting & racing.
Portrait by @nicholasjrwhite.bsky.social
#overnght #danrichards #michaelfassbender #porsche
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Praise for Overnight by Dan Richards I loved Overnight. It is both gripping and consoling, and full of an intelligent, querying tenderness for its subjects. I was never sure whether l'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 '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 The height of crafted eloquence' SAMANTHA HARVEY 'A revelatory journey into the teeming life of the night. Moving, engrossing, essential.' KATHERINE MAY I found Overnight to be 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. By turns emotionally raw, fascinating and even a little spooky' KASSIA ST CLAIR 'In Overnight, Dan Richards introduces us to the shadowy, starlit world of postal workers, night nurses, 24-hour industry, late night radio, search & 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' CAL FLYN 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 'Dan Richard's writing spans great gulfs of emotion and experience. He is witty & profound and his curiosity and empathy know no bounds. He takes us deep into the night & brings it utterly alive. PHILIP HOARE
@bessbbe.bsky.social now drives freight trains across the UK, often on the night shift. She’s a brilliant author, illustrator and social media presence. Do give her a follow. 👍
#overnight #danrichards #canongatebooks #bessie #railfreight #gbrailfreight #canongate #onlyafterdark
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...(and stay afterwards for some scones and a book signing - books and scones sold separately).
Tickets are £15 for in-person seats and £10 to view on Zoom. Call 01244 532 350 or email enquiries@gladlib.org to purchase.
@dan_zep #dorothypilley #climbingdays #danrichards
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Tickets are £15 for in-person seats and £10 to view the talk on Zoom. Email rhian.waller@gladlib.org to purchase.
Visit https://buff.ly/4dxu0MS to find out more.
@dan_zep #dorothypilley #climbingdays #danrichards
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Tickets are available from £10. Find out more and purchase here: https://buff.ly/4dxu0MS
@dan_zep #climbingdays #danrichards #mountaineering #climbing #mountainclimbing
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Tickets are available from £10. Find out more and purchase here: https://buff.ly/4dxu0MS
@dan_zep #climbingdays #danrichards #mountaineering #climbing #mountainclimbing
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Did you catch our latest LeaderLive column? It's about Dan Richards, his great grand aunt Dorothy Pilley, an intrepid mountaineer, and the talk he's going to deliver here on Monday 23rd September:
https://buff.ly/3Z4KpVe
#dorothypilley #climbingdays #danrichards
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