Horatio Clare’s books include Running for the Hills (Somerset Maugham Award), A Single Swallow, Down to the Sea in Ships (Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year), Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot (Branford Boase Award, best debut children’s book), Icebeaker: A Voyage Far North, The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal and Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J S Bach.
His latest book, Heavy Light: a story of madness, mania and healing, publishes with Chatto & Windus in 2021. Horatio broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio, writes for the Financial Times, the Spectator and various other papers and magazines, and lectures in non-fiction at the University of Manchester.
