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Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare re-tells six myths and legends of Wales' celebrated regions of Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd. These brilliantly written short stories bring to life the extensive history and supernatural mystery that…
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Horatio Clare re-tells ten myths and legends of Wales' famous Brecon Beacons. These brilliantly written short stories bring to life the extensive history and supernatural mystery that resides in these…
Clare Horatio
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…
A journey through mania, madness and healing- both personal and rigorously researched this is a timely contribution to our ongoing national conversation about mental health
‘An extraordinary book- deeply moving…
A search for a bird on the edge of extinction.
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The ladybirdz arrive in Woodside Terrace, and Aubrey’s Easter holidays get complicated. Then Ariadne the spider asks Aubrey for help to save the world…
A useful companion for those travelling to Sicily, this work is part of a series that is a collection of writing, aiming to invest the traveller with a cultural and…
A journey through mania, madness and healing- both personal and rigorously researched it’ll be a timely contribution to our ongoing national conversation about mental health
‘Deeply moving, darkly funny and…
‘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…
When Aubrey is stung by a very polite wasp he realises there is something strange going on in Rushing Wood. With help from his friends Ariadne the house spider, Silvio…
‘Do you want to spend your whole life on the tube? Wouldn’t you rather live somewhere wild and beautiful and free?
‘I’m going to tell the truth’, I said suddenly, ‘about what we did and why, and what it did to us.
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries -…
Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in Wales.
‘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.
The paperback edition of Horatio Clare’s search for the western world’s rarest bird, the Slender-billed Curlew, through a fractured Europe and the Middle East.
In the winter of 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck, a distance of more than…
Elias Lonnrot
Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: ‘the land of heroes’. Ambition, lust, romance, birth and death can all be found within its pages, as well as the sampo, a…
An exploration of ten stories of myth and legend based in Wales’ famous Brecon Beacons. Written by award-winning author Horiatio Clare, this book celebrates the extensive history and supernatural mystery…
Jocelyn Brooke
The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece - a blend of botany, memoir and satire; the story of Jocelyn Brooke’s obsession with one flower - the Orchis Militaris, the military…
A moving winter diary that reveals the healing power of the natural world.
The acclaimed winter diary that reveals the healing power of the natural world
