Helen Shaw Author, Illustrator & Editor

Helen Shaw lives in the North Pennines on a remote hillside south of Garrigill, Cumbria. Her photographs have featured in The Times, Manchester Evening News, This England, Cumbria Life, Westmoreland Gazette, The Scots magazine, Northern Life, and countless other magazines and newspapers all across northern England. Her photographic books have earned her a strong following: The Forest of Bowland, Land’s End to John O’Groats, The Pennines, String of Pearls (Lake District).The North Pennines is her fifth book of landscape photography and her first one focussing entirely on her home of the North Pennines. A keen walker and lover of wild and lonely places, she is married to Bob Shelmerdine who shares her passion for the outdoors.