The New European's Nonfiction Book of the Year – a love song to grifters, drifters, cities and lost youth, literary hauntings and the power of belonging. Jeff Young talks to travel writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare.

Wild Twin has been shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2025.

Liverpool-based screenwriter and playwright Jeff Young is one of the BBC's most experienced radio dramatists (with over 25 radio plays broadcast in the last 20 years). He also writes for TV and his stage work includes plays for Liverpool Everyman, Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic. He wrote a major stage adaptation of The Who's Quadrophenia, which toured the UK in 2009. His memoir Ghost Town was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award.

Horatio Clare is renowned for travel writings, memoir, nature and children's books, and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry. His published works include include Running for the Hills; A Single Swallow; Down to the Sea in Ships; Orison for a Curlew; and Your Journey, Your Way.

Photo Jeff Young © Pearl Buscombe Young; Photo Horatio Clare © Caroline Flinders