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Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare (1973 - ) is a writer, radio producer and journalist. Born in London, he and his brother Alexander grew up on a hill farm in the Black Mountains of south Wales.
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Publications:
- A Single Swallow
- Truant: Notes from A Slippery Slope
- Running for the Hills
- Sicily Through Writers' Eye
- Red City: Marakech Through Writers' Eyes
- Meetings With Remarkable Muslims
Clare describes the experience in his first book "Running for the Hills" (John Murray 2006) which was widely and favourably reivewed in the UK, where it became a bestseller, as in the US.
His second book "Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope" (John Murray July 2007) seeks to explore and explain 'the mad elephant years' as the book calls them, the period in which young men are most likely to take drugs, get into fights, go to jail and commit suicide.
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OUT NOW - A Single Swallow
The story of a journey between Cape Town and South Wales in 2008, following Barn Swallows on their northbound migration, leaving the Cape on February 1st and crossing the Severn Sea (aka the Bristol Channel)
Forum Swallow Notes, Questions and Queries here
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Single Swallow' is out now!
"Fine writing and a gift for inventive, unexpected metaphor... a brave, modern and open-hearted approach to travel itself"
The Guardian
"A travel writer in the truest sense. Lyrical, often funny and arresting...It's a shame there isn't more travel writing like this."
The Daily Telegraph
"Fizzingly entertaining...his prose has something of the swallow's flight: daring, sharp-edged, fast-moving, graceful, full of surprises. This is a great adventure, thrillingly realised, and one of its innumerable merits is that it reminds us how much more interesting humans are than any bird."
The Literary Review
"A gifted and lyrical travel writer, excellent at conveying atmospheres and good at making contact with all sorts of people."
The Financial Times
"Travel writing at its very best - enthralling, passionate, hair-raising, quirky, hilarious, informative, occasionally mad and utterly, utterly brilliant."
The Daily Mail
"His eye for detail and his elegant pen give a flavour of each country he crosses: great veldts and high plateaux, Congo’s “green vastness”, the “sandy seas” of the Sahel and, finally, the fertile plain of the north African coast."
The Economist
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Meet the Author - dates here
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Previous publication - Truant: Notes from ASlippery Slope here
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His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and Vogue.
At the BBC Clare worked as a researcher, then producer on Front Row (Radio 4), Night Waves and The Verb (Radio 3) for which he now freelances.
Running for the Hills" won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2007, was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2006 and Clare was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, 2007.
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