Set among the mountains and crags of the UK and North America, 'Dreams of Lost Buttresses' is a short-story collection that explores relationships between people and place, and the visceral connection of rock-climbers to the landscape around them. Tales of shapeshifting, falling, obsession, desire and the joy found in losing yourself on the rock.
With a back-story of running round the route of the classic Alpine journey the Tour de Mont Blanc, Heather Dawe explores the drive behind mountain running and racing, and how simply being in the mountains has inspired herself and other climbers, writers, artists and innovators through the years.
Inspired by Yorkshire's landscape and history A Bicycle Ride in Yorkshire is an illustrated guide to the route of Le Tour Yorkshire - the start of the 2014 Tour de France, by cyclist, writer and artist Heather Dawe. It is a guide to riding the route, to the sights along the way and to the rich cycling heritage found on Yorkshire's roads.
Mountain Stories is an illustrated memoir of journeys through some of Scotland's most beautiful landscapes, including Skye's Cuillin, Knoydart, Assynt and the Far North. Writing during lockdown, author and artist Heather Dawe finds telling these stories a powerful means of reconnection with the mountains when they are physically inaccessible.
After moving to Leeds to study, Heather Dawe began to compete in fell races and mountain marathons, joking in the pub one night that she could race at the highest level. Being hit by a car doing over 40mph while cycling would have ended many athletes' dreams, but Dawe's drive pushed her even harder - hard enough to make her pub joke a reality, hard enough to win Elite Mountain Marathons, to win the Three Peaks Cyclo-cross race and to complete the Bob Graham Round. This is Heather's account of her attempts to find her physical - and emotional - limits.
A Cycling Year takes its inspiration from an old map of Wharfedale in Yorkshire. Each month of the year writer and artist, Heather Dawe, rides a route around the roads and trails of this Yorkshire Dale. Illustrated with Dawe's paintings the routes come alive, as she explores the geography, history and beauty of the places she visits along the way.