Horatio Clare is a critically acclaimed author and journalist. His first book, Running for the Hills: A Family Story, won the Somerset Maugham Award. A Single Swallow was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year; Down to the Sea in Ships won the Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2015. Horatio’s first book for children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, won the Branford Boase Award 2016 for best debut children’s book and his YA book, Aubrey and the Terrible Spiders, was selected to our 2023 Bookshelf.

Clare has written two books about mental health: Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing and, most recently, Your Journey, Your Way. 

His latest publication is We Came By Sea, (Little Toller Books, June 2025) the story of the volunteers who help thousands of refugees in Calais

Horatio broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 4, notably for From Our Own Correspondent and presents Radio 3’s acclaimed annual Sound Walks series at Christmas. He writes for the Financial Times, the Spectator, Conde Nast Traveller and many other papers, websites and magazines. Horatio lectures in non-fiction at the University of Manchester. He lives in West Yorkshire and describes himself as very much an international Welshman.