‘What Horatio Clare demonstrates, even beyond his undoubted gifts as a writer, is his basic humanity.’ Philip Hoare

This superb book by travel writer and journalist Horatio Clare takes an unexpected look at the small boats crisis in the English Channel and how an army of volunteers continues consistently to help the hundreds of refugees pouring through Calais. This is the other side of the story, a story which introduces us to the lifeboat crews who regularly mount vast rescue operations, amongst the largest of all time. It also reveals a side to Britain and the British people that is seldom seen. This is the best of the country – often unrecognised, frequently uncelebrated – giving nevertheless what they can to help the desperate and the vulnerable.

Horatio Clare is a well-known writer and memoirist who describes these true stories with passion as well as pride. He believes that our nation as great and as good as the people in the dinghies believe. Come and find out why

‘Horatio Clare has the voice of a great storyteller.’

Michael Morpurgo