Horatio Clare

Travel writer, memoirist, broadcaster and children’s author Horatio Clare was born in London in 1973. He is the bestselling author of two memoirs including Running for the Hills, which tells the story of his rural childhood and was the winner of the 2007 Somerset Maugham Award. He has also written the travel books A Single Swallow – which follows the birds' migration from South Africa to the UK – and Down to the Sea in Ships (2014). He read English at York University before joining the BBC as an arts radio producer. Horatio’s essays and features are published in The Financial Times, Travel + Leisure, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The
Spectator and Conde Nast Traveller, where he is a Contributing Editor. He is a regular contributor to ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ on BBC Radio Four and the World Service. The presenter of numerous Radio 4 documentaries, his Sound Walks are a fixture of Radio 3’s Christmas schedule. Horatio’s first book for children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot (2015) won the Branford Boase Award for best debut children’s book. Along with its sequel Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds (2017) it was
nominated for the Carnegie Medal.