Horatio Clare

Horatio Clare is a Welsh author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry.Clare has written memoirs such as Running for the Hills and Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope; a novella, The Prince's Pen; and several works of travel and nature writing: these include A Single Swallow (2009) and Down to the Sea in Ships (2014).Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing appeared in 2021, published by Chatto & Windus.Born in London, Clare grew up on a hill farm in the Black Mountains of South Wales.In 2014 Chatto and Windus published Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men, the best-selling story of two voyages on container vessels Clare joined.
Front RowBBC Radio 4Night WavesBBC Radio 3travelnature writingBothnian BayIcebreakerCarnegie MedalBlack MountainsMalvern CollegeUnited World College of the AtlanticUniversity of YorkSicilyThe GuardianThe Sunday TimesThe SpectatorNew StatesmanFinancial TimesThe Sunday TelegraphThe Daily TelegraphThe ObserversectioningSomerset Maugham AwardSunday Times Young Writer of the Year AwardWales Book of the YearBranford Boase Award