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. Horatio broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio, writes for various papers and magazines, and lectures in nonfiction at the University of Manchester.

Horatio Clare’s award-winning books include Running for the Hills, Down to the Sea in Ships and Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot.