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Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2017. Aubrey's father, Jim, has
fallen under an horrendous spell, which Aubrey is determined to
break. Everyone says his task is impossible, but Aubrey will never
give up and never surrender - even if he must fight the unkillable
Spirit of Despair itself: the TERRIBLE YOOT!
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Sicily (Paperback)
Horatio Clare
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This exciting new series will bring together both classic texts and
the writing of the leading Travel writers working today, which will
inform and inspire the inquisitive traveller. It is an essential
companion for anyone travelling to Sicily. Selected authors
include: Herodotus, Patrick Brydone, Pirandello, Ann Radcliffe and
D. H. Lawrence. This new series is not a guide of where to stay and
what to do, rather it is collection of writing that aims to invest
the traveller with a cultural and historical background to Syria,
which will breath life and meaning into the sights, sounds and
tastes that the inquisitive traveller will experience.
The ladybirdz arrive in Woodside Terrace, and Aubrey's Easter
holidays get complicated. Ariadne the spider asks Aubrey to help.
Something Must Be Done, but first Aubrey sucks the swallow stone
which makes him small enough for daring flights on the back of
Hirundo the Swallow and amazing adventures in the Web of Time and
Space. Add in Bernardo the bee, Eric the earthworm and a whole
conference of ravens, and you have the start of an epic tale in
which a small boy and a house spider try to save the world!
When Aubrey is stung by a very polite wasp, he realises there is
something strange going on in Rushing Wood. And as he's the only
boy he knows of who can talk with animals, he is determined to find
out what. With help from his friends Ariadne the house spider,
Silvio the silverfish and Lupo the husky pup, the young warrior
sets out to fight the Terrible Spiders and their genius creator Big
B and, just maybe, save the world.
In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach,
then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher
and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit
the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more than 250
miles. This journey and its destination were a pivotal point in the
life of arguably the greatest composer the world has yet seen.
Lubeck was Bach's moment, when a young teacher with a reputation
for intolerance of his pupils' failings began his journey to become
the master of the Baroque. More than three hundred years later, the
writer Horatio Clare set off to recreate this walk, following in
Bach's footsteps. The result of this journey is Something of his
Art, an imaginative evocation of what the twenty-year-old composer
would have seen and felt on his long journey is a sustained
visualisation of the landscape, light and wildlife of early
eighteenth century northern Germany. Bach becomes Clare's walking
companion, a vestigial but real presence, as he acutely observes
the season and places he passes through.
The Invaders drones hear everything and miss nothing. England is
now a defeated archipelago but somewhere in the higher ground to
the far west, insurrection is brewing. The self-styled kings of
Wales, Ludo and Levello, take prisoners, but can they free the
British Isles without the help of Islamic princess Uzma and the
power of Pakistan, the only other country remaining in the free
world? Award-winning author Horatio Clare refracts politics, faith
and the contemporary world order through the prism of some of the
earliest British myth, the Mabinogion, to ask who are the
outsiders, the infidels and who the enemy within.
'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane
'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette
Winterson After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was
committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act.
From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked
ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses
touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we may heal. 'One of
the most brilliant travel writers of our day takes us now to that
most challenging country, severe mental illness; and does so with
such wit, warmth and humanity' Reverend Richard Coles
Shortlisted for the Wales Creative Nonfiction Book of the Year
2019; Rediscover the light in the dark...; 'A treasure of a book,
wonderfully attentive in outlook and generous in spirit.' - Amy
Liptrot; As November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days
tighten into shorter hours, winter's occupation begins. Preparing
for winter has its own rhythms, as old as our exchanges with the
land. Of all the seasons, it draws us together. But winter can be
tough.; It is a time of introspection, of looking inwards. Seasonal
sadness; winter blues; depression - such feelings are widespread in
the darker months. But by looking outwards, by being in and
observing nature, we can appreciate its rhythms. Mountains make
sense in any weather. The voices of a wood always speak
consolation. A brush of frost; subtle colours; days as bright as a
magpie's cackle. We can learn to see and celebrate winter in all
its shadows and lights.; In this moving and lyrical evocation of a
British winter and the feelings it inspires, Horatio Clare raises a
torch against the darkness, illuminating the blackest corners of
the season, and delving into memory and myth to explore the
powerful hold that winter has on us. By learning to see, we can
find the magic, the light that burns bright at the heart of winter:
spring will come again.; __________; 'The natural world has life
and light on even the coldest darkest days of winter and that is
Clare's salvation.' - Susan Hill, Daily Mail Christmas Books;
'Magical, moving and deeply atmospheric' - Patrick Barkham; A
Guardian 'best book of 2018'
The Slender-billed Curlew, Numenius tenuirostris, 'the slim beak of
the new moon', is one of the world's rarest birds. It once bred in
Siberia and wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing through
the wetlands and estuaries of Italy, Greece, the Balkans and
Central Asia. Today the Slender-billed Curlew exists as a rumour, a
ghost species surrounded by unconfirmed sightings and speculation.
The only certainty is that it now stands on the brink of
extinction. Birds are key environmental indicators. Their health or
hardship has a message for us about the planet, and our future.
What does the fate of the Slender-billed Curlew mean for us, and
for the natural world? What happened to it, and why? In Orison for
a Curlew Horatio Clare journeys through a fractured Europe in
search of the Slender-billed Curlew, following the bird's migratory
path on an odyssey that takes us into the lives of the men and
women who have fought to save the landscapes to which the bird
belongs. This is a story of beauty, triumph, and the struggles of
conservation. It is a homage to a bird which may never be seen
again.
Before Horatio Clare was born, his parents fell in love with a
place -- a remote sheep farm in Wales, physically and in every
other way far from the lives they were forging as young
professionals in London. The farm was high up a mountain, nearly
impassable in winter. The neighbors were surly, or perhaps just
unused to foreigners. But the setting was breathtaking, and soon it
changed Jenny's and Robert's lives.What began as the somewhat
conventional dream of a young, ambitious couple from London looking
for a weekend home quickly became a different vision. Horatio's
mother, romantic and tenacious, found it impossible to leave the
fierce and beautiful land. She abandoned her job, her social world,
and eventually her marriage to raise her two sons in the company of
a herd of sheep, a few dogs, and the badgers, foxes, and mice who
had prior claim to her new world. While other boys were going to
films and listening to rock music, Horatio was weaning ewes and
watching weather and surviving the furor of irascible neighbors.
His childhood was marked by wonder and joy, and it is that
wonderment that he bestows upon the reader as he recounts the story
of the ancient, sometimes brutal, way of life on a hill farm. This
wise book is a moving tribute to his mother, both beautiful and
brave.
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman
Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a
world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of
every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable
weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep
landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives,
subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from
hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not
hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on
their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable
journeys. As the ships cross seas of history and incident,
seafarers unfold the stories of their lives, and a beautiful and
terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges.
'Tremendous' The Times
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through
Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea
where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and
fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they
do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher,
it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old
empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed
swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and
describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers
and a tiny orange dog. By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and
three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South
Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where
a pair nest in May.
*A Newstatesman Book of the Year* 'Nimble, vital, unexpectedly
affecting' Observer Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins
an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north.
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year:
how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message
from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around
an extraordinary country and an unearthly place, the frozen Bay of
Bothnia, just short of the Arctic circle. Travelling with the crew
of Icebreaker Otso, Horatio, whose last adventure saw him embedded
on Maersk container vessels for the bestseller Down to the Sea in
Ships, discovers stories of Finland, of her mariners and of ice.
Aboard Otso Horatio gets to know the men who make up her crew, and
explores Finland's history and character. Surrounded by the
extraordinary colours and conditions of a frozen sea, he also comes
to understand something of the complexity and fragile beauty of
ice, a near-miraculous substance which cools the planet, gives the
stars their twinkle and which may hold all our futures in its
crystals.
When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to
build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an
isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running
water but it is beautiful and rugged. Their young sons can roam
wild. As their flock struggles, money runs low and rain drives in
horizontally across the fields, inside the ancient house their
marriage begins to unravel. Wilful and romantic, Jenny refuses to
abandon her farm. She will bring her boys up single-handedly on the
mountain. Together they embark on a perilous adventure. Running for
the Hills is astonishing family memoir - Horatio Clare vividly
recreates his mother's extraordinary way of life and his own
bewitching childhood in a magical story of love and struggle.
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Kalevala (Paperback)
Elias Lonnrot; Introduction by Horatio Clare
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Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: 'the land of heroes'. Here
you'll find the cultural essence of a young country but an old
land, the stories, songs and poems that recount the mythical
adventures of humankind. Ambition, lust, romance, birth and death
can all be found within its pages, as well as the sampo, a
mysterious talisman that brings great happiness to its possessor
and over which great battles will be fought. WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY HORATIO CLARE
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The Military Orchid (Paperback, New edition)
Jocelyn Brooke; Illustrated by Gavin Bone, Stephen Bone; Introduction by Horatio Clare; Cover design or artwork by David Inshaw
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Jocelyn Brooke's love affair with wild flowers and home-made
fireworks began when he was growing up in Kent and exploring the
countryside of the the Elham Valley. But there was one particular
flower, especially rare and beautiful which became an obsession.
Over three decades and through two world wars, in the deserts of
Libya and the woodlands of Italy, in the chalk downs of Kent,
Sussex and Hampshire, he searched continually for his most beloved
and elusive Orchis militaris, the military orchid.Against the
backdrop of his quintessentially English upbringing and his army
career, with ts wonderful cast of snobbish neighbours, eccentric
public school teachers and bullish staff sergeants, Jocelyn Brooke
blends memoir, botany and satire to recall his lifelong quest. The
Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece and became widely revered:
Kingsley Amis decribed Brooke as "brilliant and exciting", John
Betjeman called him "as subtle as the devil", and to Anthony Powell
he was "one of the most interesting and talented" writers to emerge
after the Second World War.
'An extraordinary book: deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely
powerful' Robert Macfarlane Heavy Light is the story of a
breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a
psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.
After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to
hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania
in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in
Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch
with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not -
by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic
experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot
through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal
with someone who becomes dangerously ill. Partly a tribute to those
who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and
professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand
and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light's beauty,
power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human
experience. It asks urgent questions about mental health that
affect each and every one of us. 'One of the most brilliant travel
writers of our day takes us us now to that most challenging
country, severe mental illness; and does so with such wit, warmth,
and humanity, that, better acquainted with its terrors, we may
better face our own' Reverend Richard Coles 'A record of the
bravest, most perilous, most intrepid journey that any human being
can ever make. It is stricken, moving, urgent, crucial . . . A
luminous, beautiful achievement' Niall Griffiths
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Truant (Paperback)
Horatio Clare
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At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a
privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel --
one of those who detested the system, who thought it not just fun
but right to break its laws -- he was expelled for smoking dope. He
became one of the thousands who gleefully ignored the warnings and
set out, in search of experience and intensity, to slalom on the
slippery slope. He was a truant in its original sense: one who
beggars himself through choice, not necessity. From university
campuses to the rooftops of New York; from Brixton basements to
fear and loathing in Mid Devon, through psychosis, mania and
depression, from sanity to madness and back again, this is a
portrait drawn from a generation that turned to drugs. And it is a
search for understanding: why do we do these things, and what do
they do to us? What were we looking for and what did we find?
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