A event on Monday 31st March. The event starts at 19:00.
Acclaimed author, Dan Richards, comes to Gloucester Road Books to discuss his fascinating new book, Overnight - an exploration of the nocturnal world, insomnia, the creative potential of the dark hours, and the work that happens at night to keep the world moving. Dan will be in conversation with award-winning BBC Radio producer, Mair Bosworth.
In Overnight, Dan takes a series of personal journeys in which he looks at 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 nighttime and change the way we all think about the hours after dark.
“Dan Richards is a wonderful storyteller, wise, wry and open-hearted, the perfect travelling companion” Max Porter
“The height of crafted eloquence” Samantha Harvey
“I loved Overnight. It is both gripping and consoling, and 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, and in the end I was sad to leave Richards' Sarah Perry
“A revelatory journey into the teeming life of the night. Moving, engrossing, essential” Katherine May
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. @Dan_Zep
Mair Bosworth is a radio producer from Bristol. She’s been with the BBC since 2013, where her work spans podcasts, documentaries, audiobooks, crafted features, studio discussions and drama. She has a special interest in poetry and fiction and works closely with writers on new commissions and adaptations of books for radio. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. She’s part of the production team for Radio 4’s A Good Read and Soul Music. She’s also part of the In the Dark audio collective – curating listening events to celebrate the best storytelling in sound from around the world.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
In Overnight, Dan takes a series of personal journeys in which he looks at 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 nighttime and change the way we all think about the hours after dark.
“Dan Richards is a wonderful storyteller, wise, wry and open-hearted, the perfect travelling companion” Max Porter
“The height of crafted eloquence” Samantha Harvey
“I loved Overnight. It is both gripping and consoling, and 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, and in the end I was sad to leave Richards' Sarah Perry
“A revelatory journey into the teeming life of the night. Moving, engrossing, essential” Katherine May
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. @Dan_Zep
Mair Bosworth is a radio producer from Bristol. She’s been with the BBC since 2013, where her work spans podcasts, documentaries, audiobooks, crafted features, studio discussions and drama. She has a special interest in poetry and fiction and works closely with writers on new commissions and adaptations of books for radio. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. She’s part of the production team for Radio 4’s A Good Read and Soul Music. She’s also part of the In the Dark audio collective – curating listening events to celebrate the best storytelling in sound from around the world.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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