List Of Writers

CLARE, HORATIO

Horatio was born in 1973 and raised in Wales. He was educated at Atlantic College and later studied English Literature at York University. He has crewed on Welsh Lifeboats and trained as a journalist on local papers. Between 1998–2005 he worked as a researcher at the BBC’s Radio Arts Department, for programmes such as Nightwaves, Front Row and The Verb. He has written a memoir of his childhood on a remote Welsh hill farm, shadowed by the break–up of his parents’ marriage. Horatio now lives in Palermo in Sicily where he is editing a collection of writings on Sicily for Eland Books.

You can contact Horatio through his publishers, John Murray on: 020 7493 4361.

Selected Publications:
Running for the Hills (Hodder John Murray, 2006)
Truant (John Murray, 2007)

Contributed to:
Sicily Through Writer’s Eyes (editor) (Eland, 2006)



Truant (John Murray, 2007)

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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