Dan Richards
@danzep.bsky.social
Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh
📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight / 📻 Only After Dark – BBC R4
Author illustration by @zoesees.bsky.social
👉 https://www.danrichards.uk/ 👈
📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight / 📻 Only After Dark – BBC R4
Author illustration by @zoesees.bsky.social
👉 https://www.danrichards.uk/ 👈
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...
www.nationalgalleries.org/event/two-me...
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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...
www.nationalgalleries.org/event/two-me...
Thanks to David Robinson at @scotsman.com for this lovely review of my conversation with the Reverend Richard Coles at @edbookfest.bsky.social yesterday.
August 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thanks to David Robinson at @scotsman.com for this lovely review of my conversation with the Reverend Richard Coles at @edbookfest.bsky.social yesterday.
I’m speaking about Overnight at Blackwells in Manchester tonight at 6:30. 📖 More details below 👇
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July 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I’m speaking about Overnight at Blackwells in Manchester tonight at 6:30. 📖 More details below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overnight-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overnight-...
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!
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!
June 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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!
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!
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
🌓👍
www.edbookfest.co.uk
1. Hattie Crissell & Roland Allen - 11:30 Tuesday 12th August
2. Caroline Eden & Monisha Rajesh - 16:00 Tuesday 12 August
June 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
🌓👍
www.edbookfest.co.uk
1. Hattie Crissell & Roland Allen - 11:30 Tuesday 12th August
2. Caroline Eden & Monisha Rajesh - 16:00 Tuesday 12 August
A thousand followers!
Thank you all 📚👍
Thank you all 📚👍
June 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A thousand followers!
Thank you all 📚👍
Thank you all 📚👍
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.
May 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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.
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
Traveller for the opportunity to write about how Swiss trains and an alpine benighting inspired my new book, Overnight @canongate.co.uk
May 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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
Traveller for the opportunity to write about how Swiss trains and an alpine benighting inspired my new book, Overnight @canongate.co.uk
Hello 👋 my Sheffield book event on Tuesday has moved to the Lescar Pub on Sharrow Vale Road, S11 - Tuesday 8th - 7pm.
Entry on the door. 👍
Entry on the door. 👍
April 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hello 👋 my Sheffield book event on Tuesday has moved to the Lescar Pub on Sharrow Vale Road, S11 - Tuesday 8th - 7pm.
Entry on the door. 👍
Entry on the door. 👍
Wonderful afternoon signing and bat 🦇 rubber-stamping copies of Overnight @toppingsbath.bsky.social with Saskia and my dear mother.
Overnight @canongate.co.uk is Topping’s non-fiction book of the month! 📚👍
Hooray!!! 🥳
Overnight @canongate.co.uk is Topping’s non-fiction book of the month! 📚👍
Hooray!!! 🥳
March 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wonderful afternoon signing and bat 🦇 rubber-stamping copies of Overnight @toppingsbath.bsky.social with Saskia and my dear mother.
Overnight @canongate.co.uk is Topping’s non-fiction book of the month! 📚👍
Hooray!!! 🥳
Overnight @canongate.co.uk is Topping’s non-fiction book of the month! 📚👍
Hooray!!! 🥳
Finished copies of Overnight arrived back from the printers yesterday. Huge thanks to @canongate.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Finished copies of Overnight arrived back from the printers yesterday. Huge thanks to @canongate.co.uk
This will be great fun!
March 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This will be great fun!
Overnight Book Tour Dates - March-May 2024
More information here: linktr.ee/dan_zep?utm_...
More information here: linktr.ee/dan_zep?utm_...
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Overnight Book Tour Dates - March-May 2024
More information here: linktr.ee/dan_zep?utm_...
More information here: linktr.ee/dan_zep?utm_...
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
#nightmail #mailtrains #royalmail #gpo #handwritten #overnight #christmascards #danrichards
December 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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
#nightmail #mailtrains #royalmail #gpo #handwritten #overnight #christmascards #danrichards
Winter Solstice - Edinburgh
All sorts of light: Low sun, dusk, street, station, head, firebox, lamp, candle and tree.
(Walking around the city, 34067 Tangmere at Waverley, candles on the mantelpiece above 3 hand-printed cards from Alec Cumming)
All sorts of light: Low sun, dusk, street, station, head, firebox, lamp, candle and tree.
(Walking around the city, 34067 Tangmere at Waverley, candles on the mantelpiece above 3 hand-printed cards from Alec Cumming)
December 21, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Winter Solstice - Edinburgh
All sorts of light: Low sun, dusk, street, station, head, firebox, lamp, candle and tree.
(Walking around the city, 34067 Tangmere at Waverley, candles on the mantelpiece above 3 hand-printed cards from Alec Cumming)
All sorts of light: Low sun, dusk, street, station, head, firebox, lamp, candle and tree.
(Walking around the city, 34067 Tangmere at Waverley, candles on the mantelpiece above 3 hand-printed cards from Alec Cumming)
December 21, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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
RESCUE 912
Search & Rescue, Humberside Airport, Lincolnshire, UK: August 2022
"The sea shall not have them”
#overnight #danrichards #hmcoastguard #rescue912 #humberside #searchandrescue
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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
RESCUE 912
Search & Rescue, Humberside Airport, Lincolnshire, UK: August 2022
"The sea shall not have them”
#overnight #danrichards #hmcoastguard #rescue912 #humberside #searchandrescue
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
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
December 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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
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
Photographs from Pyramiden and Longyearbyen, Svalvard, Norway 🇳🇴 April 2018
#overnight #danrichards #svalbard #hopeinthedark #hope #light #iceland
#overnight #danrichards #svalbard #hopeinthedark #hope #light #iceland
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Photographs from Pyramiden and Longyearbyen, Svalvard, Norway 🇳🇴 April 2018
#overnight #danrichards #svalbard #hopeinthedark #hope #light #iceland
#overnight #danrichards #svalbard #hopeinthedark #hope #light #iceland
I think this was one of the main inspirations to write a book about all aspects of the night and explore the idea that we are light sensitive creatures, highly attuned to the natural world and cycles of the seasons in ways we do not perhaps fully appreciate.
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
I think this was one of the main inspirations to write a book about all aspects of the night and explore the idea that we are light sensitive creatures, highly attuned to the natural world and cycles of the seasons in ways we do not perhaps fully appreciate.
Belated Day 16 - The idea that night isn’t necessarily dark runs throughout Overnight; both in the sense of ‘lack of light’ and ‘lack of hope.’
Whilst up in the high north for my last book, Outpost - in the Svalbard & the frozen central tundra Iceland - I experienced nights where the sun never set.
Whilst up in the high north for my last book, Outpost - in the Svalbard & the frozen central tundra Iceland - I experienced nights where the sun never set.
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Belated Day 16 - The idea that night isn’t necessarily dark runs throughout Overnight; both in the sense of ‘lack of light’ and ‘lack of hope.’
Whilst up in the high north for my last book, Outpost - in the Svalbard & the frozen central tundra Iceland - I experienced nights where the sun never set.
Whilst up in the high north for my last book, Outpost - in the Svalbard & the frozen central tundra Iceland - I experienced nights where the sun never set.
Belated Day 15 – Greater Horseshoe Bats, Devon: June 2023
A visit to Buckfastleigh to talk to local people about Europe’s largest maternity roost of Greater Horseshoe Bats which exists in caves below the village.
A visit to Buckfastleigh to talk to local people about Europe’s largest maternity roost of Greater Horseshoe Bats which exists in caves below the village.
December 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Belated Day 15 – Greater Horseshoe Bats, Devon: June 2023
A visit to Buckfastleigh to talk to local people about Europe’s largest maternity roost of Greater Horseshoe Bats which exists in caves below the village.
A visit to Buckfastleigh to talk to local people about Europe’s largest maternity roost of Greater Horseshoe Bats which exists in caves below the village.