A heartfelt celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety.

Closed shops and grilled dinners. Thick newspapers and the hum of lawnmowers. aimless walks and visits to sleeping uncles. Thematic TV melodies signaling bath time and a sudden anxiety about the upcoming week…

Through a series of rituals and activities, Sundays became the only day of the week for us – whether exhausting, enjoyable, or somewhere in between. But how have they changed over time? Has anything interesting ever happened on a Sunday? Have we forgotten how to spend a Sunday? And, in our busy modern lives, should we now try to reclaim that special, relaxed feeling of Sunday;

Offering answers to these questions and more through a blend of travel narrative and social history, Sunday Best highlights in an entertaining way what the author Daniel Gray calls the Day of the People. Told through Sundays spent in places from the Hebrides to Hyde Park – via Sunderland, Scarborough, the Pict region, and beyond – Gray’s latest book is a fascinating journey through time and place. Sunday Best offers nostalgia, folk history, and gentle, absorbing prose – a book imbued with the scent of gravel and invoking the sound of church bells.