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. He worked at the BBC as a producer on ''Front Row'' (BBC Radio 4), ''Night Waves'' (BBC Radio 3) and ''The Verb'' (BBC Radio 3). He is a senior lecturer in creative non-fiction at the University of Manchester.

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).

He wrote and edited ''Sicily: Through Writers' Eyes'' in 2006. In 2015 he published ''Orison for a Curlew'', a combination of travel and nature writing, and in the winter of 2017 Chatto and Windus published ''Icebreaker – A Voyage Far North'', the record of a journey around the Bothnian Bay with the Finnish government's Icebreaker Otso.

His 2019 work ''The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal'' is an exploration of the highs and lows of the British winter. ''Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing'' appeared in 2021, published by Chatto & Windus. The work describes Clare's own breakdown, sectioning, psychiatric treatment, and recovery.

Two children's books, ''Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot'' and a sequel ''Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds'' appeared in 2015 and 2017. Both Aubrey books were longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

In 2024 he published “Your Journey Your Way - how to make the mental health system work for you” with Penguin, a study of new treatments and approaches to mental health recovery. Provided by Wikipedia