Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Overview
Horatio Clare's books for children and adults range from memoir and travel to short stories and novellas. His non-fiction includes Running for the Hills (Somerset Maugham Award), A Single Swallow, Down to the Sea in Ships (Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year), Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North (shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year), Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J S Bach and The Light in the Dark: A winter journal. His first book for children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, won the Branford Boase Best Debut Children's Book Award.
Horatio is a regular contributor to BBC Radio, notably From Our Own Correspondent (Radio 4) and the presenter of the Sound Walks series (Radio 3). He writes for the travel, books and features pages of The Financial Times, The Spectator, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller, among others.
He joined the Centre for New Writing in 2018.
External positions
Presenter / Broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Head Office
Contributing Editor, Conde Nast Traveller
Feature writer / reviewer, Guardian Media Group plc
Feature and travel writer - The Financial Times, The Financial Times Ltd
Book reviewer, The Spectator (1828) Ltd
Areas of expertise
- DT Africa
- Travel and tourism
- NE Print media
- Press and journalism
- PN1990 Broadcasting
- Contemporary non-fiction
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Creative Manchester
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Your Journey Your Way: how to make the mental health system work for you
Clare, H., 29 Oct 2024, London: Penguin Books. 384 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Wanted: Welsh Travel Writers
Clare, H., 10 May 2022, Home To You: 10 Years of Wales Arts Review. Morris, P. J. (ed.). Cwmbran, p. 89-99 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Heavy Light: A journey through madness, mania and healing
Clare, H., 4 Mar 2021, London: Chatto & Windus. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Something Of His Art: Walking to Lubeck with J S Bach
Clare, H., 2018, UK: Little Toller Books. 96 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal
Clare, H., 1 Nov 2018, Elliott & Thompson. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Prizes
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Foreign Press Association Awards
Clare, H. (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Neville Shulman Award Royal Geographical Society
Clare, H. (Recipient), 1 May 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
Clare, H. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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'The English understand us' - hope and despair in Calais
24/11/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
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FINANCIAL TIMES: The truckers who keep our world moving
20/05/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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