The Indigo Hours Hardcover by edited and with an introduction by Duncan Minshull

Product Details

• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions (2026-11-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781912559770
• Item Weight: 209.79 grams
• Dimensions: 19.0 x 11.94 x 1.83 cm

An anthology of over fifty pieces celebrating the very special nature of nightwalking, selected by the editor of the successful walking anthologies Beneath my Feet, Sauntering and Globetrotting

The fourth volume of Duncan Minshull’s hugely successful series of anthologies, The Indigo Hours: Writers Walk the Night celebrates the unique experience of walking at night.

Drawn from journals, letters, travelogues and diaries ranging from the 1600s to the present day, this fascinating collection records journeys made on urban streets, as well as in the moonlit wilds of nature, from twilight and towards dawn.

With contributions from Virginia Woolf, Fanny Kemble, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Jack London, Joanna Kavenna, Edith Wharton, Rachel Carson, W.G. Sebald, George Orwell, Kate Pullinger, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Dorothy Wordsworth, Edward Lear, and many more.

About the Author

Duncan Minshull is an anthologist, audio producer, and director of walking tours—“walk and talks”—across various parts of the UK. His latest book is The Indigo Hours: Writers Walk the Night, and his previous books include While Wandering, Beneath My Feet, Sauntering, Where My Feet Fall, and Globetrotting. He has written extensively about the subject of walking for The Times (UK), Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, Slightly Foxed, Psychologies, and Vogue, and is a former senior producer at BBC Radio, where he commissioned and produced the series Book Of The Week, Book at Bedtime, The Essay, and Short Story. He lives in West London.