Dan Richards was born in Wales in 1982 and grew up in Bristol. He has studied at UEA and Norwich Art School.Dan is co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood; first published in 2012 as a limited run of 277 books – letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence in his Oxford workshop – followed by a general edition by Faber in 2013.Climbing Days, an exploration of the writing and climbing lives of his great-great aunt and uncle – Dorothy Pilley and I. A. Richards – is set to be published by Faber in Spring 2016.

‘A wonderful jigsaw puzzle of a book’ Kirsty Gunn, Observer‘A heartening touchstone for anyone doing anything in the least bit creative, The Beechwood Airship Interviews is funny, audacious, and most of all, inspiring’ Melissa Harrison, author of Clay‘A kind of miraculous manual, a brilliant answer to the simplest and most mysterious question art inspires: how do they do that?’ Horatio Clare, author of Down to the Sea in Ships‘Burnishing, edifying and relentlessly inspiring. A complex meditation on creativity as opposed to mere technique, full of wonderful, wildly grand statements from people who make excellent things. ’ Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals‘An engaging tale of the rhythms and rituals of cultural labour – and of what you can achieve if you have the gumption to ask’ Marcus O’Dair, Caught by the River

Dan Richards was born in Wales in 1982 and grew up in Bristol. He has studied at UEA and Norwich Art School.Dan is co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood; first published in 2012 as a limited run of 277 books – letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence in his Oxford workshop – followed by a general edition by Faber in 2013.Climbing Days, an exploration of the writing and climbing lives of his great-great aunt and uncle – Dorothy Pilley and I. A. Richards – is set to be published by Faber in Spring 2016.

‘A wonderful jigsaw puzzle of a book’ Kirsty Gunn, Observer‘A heartening touchstone for anyone doing anything in the least bit creative, The Beechwood Airship Interviews is funny, audacious, and most of all, inspiring’ Melissa Harrison, author of Clay‘A kind of miraculous manual, a brilliant answer to the simplest and most mysterious question art inspires: how do they do that?’ Horatio Clare, author of Down to the Sea in Ships‘Burnishing, edifying and relentlessly inspiring. A complex meditation on creativity as opposed to mere technique, full of wonderful, wildly grand statements from people who make excellent things. ’ Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals‘An engaging tale of the rhythms and rituals of cultural labour – and of what you can achieve if you have the gumption to ask’ Marcus O’Dair, Caught by the River

Dan Richards was born in Wales in 1982 and grew up in Bristol. He has studied at UEA and Norwich Art School.Dan is co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood; first published in 2012 as a limited run of 277 books – letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence in his Oxford workshop – followed by a general edition by Faber in 2013.Climbing Days, an exploration of the writing and climbing lives of his great-great aunt and uncle – Dorothy Pilley and I. A. Richards – is set to be published by Faber in Spring 2016.

‘A wonderful jigsaw puzzle of a book’ Kirsty Gunn, Observer‘A heartening touchstone for anyone doing anything in the least bit creative, The Beechwood Airship Interviews is funny, audacious, and most of all, inspiring’ Melissa Harrison, author of Clay‘A kind of miraculous manual, a brilliant answer to the simplest and most mysterious question art inspires: how do they do that?’ Horatio Clare, author of Down to the Sea in Ships‘Burnishing, edifying and relentlessly inspiring. A complex meditation on creativity as opposed to mere technique, full of wonderful, wildly grand statements from people who make excellent things. ’ Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals‘An engaging tale of the rhythms and rituals of cultural labour – and of what you can achieve if you have the gumption to ask’ Marcus O’Dair, Caught by the River