An evening with... Dan Richards

Name: An evening with... Dan Richards
Start: 2025-05-07T19:30:00+01:00
Location: 18,High Street, NP8 1BD Crickhowell, United Kingdom

Wed, 07 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm UTC+01:00

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Join us for an evening with Sunday Times bestselling author Dan Richards to discuss his book Overnight – an exploration of the night, the nocturnal world, insomnia, the creative potential of the dark hours, and the work that happens at night to keep the modern world moving. All tickets include a glass of wine or a soft drink and there will be the opportunity to get your book signed too.
ABOUT 'OVERNIGHT'
There is something special about the night. For many, just the idea of it conjures thoughts of starlit skies, romance, refuge, of being tucked up in bed. For some, the night means fear, vulnerability, danger, sleeplessness. In Overnight, Dan takes a series of personal journeys where he explores what the night means to an array of people. From night terrors and insomnia, parenthood during the early hours of the morning and the men and woman of emergency services to the endurance car race at 24 Heures du Mans and dawn on the summer solstice, Dan endeavours to explain the uniqueness of night time. For others still, nightfall signals the start of work. Dan endeavours to change the way we all think about the hours after dark. Visiting bats and looking at the stars, we are taken on a journey, travelling by ship, train, racing car and foot. Celebrating all things nocturnal, those who labour while the rest of us sleep: the bakers, health workers, sailors, couriers, broadcasters, drivers, fishers as well as nocturnal animals, even learning what the Moomintroll has to teach us about insomnia – Overnight is a hymn to life after dark.
ABOUT DAN RICHARDS
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 Guardian, Economist, Esquire and Monocle. He is based in Edinburgh.