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Book SynopsisHoratio Clare is the bestselling author of numerous books including the memoirs
Running for the Hills and
Truant and the travel books
A Single Swallow,
Down to the Sea in Ships, Orison for a Curlew, Icebreaker and
The Light in the Dark. His books for children include
Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot and
Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds. Horatio's essays and reviews appear on BBC radio and in the
Financial Times, the
Observer and the
Spectator, among other publications. He lives with his family in West Yorkshire.
Trade ReviewClare's extraordinary and mesmerising odyssey following the migration of the swallow from South Africa to South Wales -- Annabel Goldie * Herald *
A gifted and lyrical travel writer * Financial Times *
The author deploys some fine lyrical writing and a gift for inventive, unexpected metaphor ... Clare's other great asset is his brave, modern, multicultural and open-hearted approach to travel itself -- Mark Cocker * Guardian *
Fizzingly entertaining. His own prose has something of their flight: daring, sharp-edged, fast-moving, graceful, full of surprises. This is a great adventure, thrillingly realised -- Tom Fort * Literary Review *
Remarkably insightful and entertaining, with Clare proving himself to be the most enthusiastic, open-minded, intelligent and incorrigibly romantic of travellers * Mail on Sunday *
