Louis Bailey started running at night a decade ago, when long work hours and heavy commutes left little time for exercise. What emerged out of practical necessity would quickly become an obsession and would grow into a new way of life. To run at night is to be vulnerable and exposed, is to forgo the ego and enter the non-human world. But to run in the moors at night also makes you feel invincible and uninhibited, unleashed from societal convention and constraints.

The Night Run crosses the many plateaus and fissures of the Dark Peak - a foreboding, lunar-like expanse in the Northern Peak District. Running here allows Louis (and the reader) to revel in the gaps where imagination unfolds and where mythology takes on new meaning.