Horatio Clare's first book, Running for the Hills, an acclaimed account of a Welsh childhood, won the Somerset Maugham Award and saw Horatio shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His subsequent books include Truant, A Single Swallow, The Prince's Pen and the best-selling travelogue, Down to the Sea in Ships, winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Horatio’s first book for children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, was listed for the Carnegie medal and won the Branford Boase Award 2016. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the national press and on BBC radio.Jane Matthews lives in Shetland, where she works as an illustrator, artist and creative project manager. She grew up in Bristol and, after studying Fine Art, worked in the film and TV industry as a scenic artist and prop maker in London, before moving to the remote Welsh Island of Skomer, where she wrote Skomer, Portrait of an Island. Jane has illustrated Horatio’s books for children as well as Brecon Beacons Myths & Legends (2017).
