Dan Richards
Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh
📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight / 📻 Only After Dark – BBC R4
Author illustration by @zoesees.bsky.social
👉 danrichards.uk 👈
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- A piece about @railway200.bsky.social, Vintage Trains and my grandfather’s service on the TPO night mails ran with the Observer yesterday observer.co.uk/style/travel...
- 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
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- Spent today writing Christmas cards. A ritual I very much enjoy.
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- Reposted by Dan RichardsWe need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)
- Reposted by Dan RichardsMy essay about the joy of the night train is up on The Winding Trail, a long read for a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning, dreaming about adventures past and journeys to come… the-winding-trail.com/2025/07/25/t...
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- Join Nicholas JR White and I at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social - 12:45, Tuesday 18th November - for a talk about how we're aiming to follow in the wake of Alfred Buckham's aerial photography (available to attend in-person & online) www.nationalgalleries.org/event/two-me...
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- Reposted by Dan RichardsBe sure to check out @danzep.bsky.social brilliant books too - Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark is Dan Richards latest book, a celebration of all things nocturnal, of those who labour while the rest of us sleep...Find out more at this link www.stanfords.co.uk/overnight-jo...
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- Reposted by Dan RichardsSave the date! Join us on September 3rd with Travel Writers Monisha Rajesh and Dan Richards for a not-to-missed event celebrating Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train , Monisha Rajesh's highly anticipated new book about the magic of night trains 🚂 www.stanfords.co.uk/event-moonli...
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- Thanks to David Robinson at @scotsman.com for this lovely review of my conversation with the Reverend Richard Coles at @edbookfest.bsky.social yesterday.
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- I’ve written about flying above Northumberland in today’s Observer Magazine observer.co.uk/style/travel...
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- I’m speaking about Overnight at Blackwells in Manchester tonight at 6:30. 📖 More details below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overnight-...
- Reposted by Dan RichardsThe lives of those who work after dark explored with affection and curiosity - a lovely review of Overnight by @danzep.bsky.social, published by @canongate.co.uk, in the Winnipeg Free Press: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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- Reposted by Dan RichardsSi vous êtes a Paris jeudi, allez voir mon ami Dan. Son nouveau livre "Overnight" est *magnifique*. Et Shakespeare and Company! ❤️
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- Over the moon to reveal that @edbookfest.bsky.social have invited me to speak & chair 5 events this August including 2 for Overnight @canongate.co.uk 🌓👍 www.edbookfest.co.uk 1. Hattie Crissell & Roland Allen - 11:30 Tuesday 12th August 2. Caroline Eden & Monisha Rajesh - 16:00 Tuesday 12 August
- 3. Lara Pawson - 15:45 Thursday 14th August 4. Overnight event w/ Arifa Akbar - 20:15 Monday 18th August 5. Edinburgh Night Walk - 20:30 Tuesday 19th August Massive thanks to Tam Zimet & all the team at @edbookfest.bsky.social A great programme - beautifully curated, vast & varied. Roll on August!
- A thousand followers! Thank you all 📚👍
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- Thank you @hayfestival.bsky.social – I had the most wonderful few days. Highlights included sharing a stage with Meg Clothier to talk about Overnight @canongate.co.uk and The Shipping Forecast, speaking with Joycelyn Longdon about her Natural Connection book, and cheering on the all-star Authors CC.
- Wonderful to talk to Robert Bound on Monocle Radio about my new book Overnight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--SS...
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- Reposted by Dan RichardsA little excerpt from @danzep.bsky.social book "Overnight" featuring the #Buckfastleigh bats with me and Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social
- Bats of Buckfastleigh: @danzep.bsky.social introduces a chiropteran extract from his latest book ‘Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark’ (@canongate.co.uk) — a celebration of all things nocturnal 🦇 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/bats... Photo courtesy Pam Barrett/Phil Wilson
- Thanks to National Geographic Traveller for the opportunity to write about how Swiss trains and an alpine benighting inspired my new book, Overnight @canongate.co.uk
- Reposted by Dan RichardsToday's #ArchiveObject is one of our favourites. This collapsible brass viewer for stereoscopic images. Owned by Dorothy Pilley and donated to the club with a set of her photographs. Amazing to see images from the early 1900s in 3d! #Archive30 #Climbingdays
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- Reposted by Dan RichardsA few years ago Phil Wilson @thejunebrides.bsky.social & I took author @danzep.bsky.social to see the Greater Horseshoe Bat emergence in #Buckfastleigh for his book Overnight. It's a moving & fascinating book - catch the review here then get a copy! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
- Reposted by Dan RichardsSo happy to have received @danzep.bsky.social's glorious new book Overnight (from @canongate.co.uk). Dan's writing is wonderful at the best of times, but this is stunningly wide-ranging and at times incredibly personal book. So, so highly recommended.
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