Book 1
Love Letter in a Hammock
Love Letter in a Hammock is a raw, unflinching memoir of endurance, grief, and love. David Shiels weaves extreme adventures with intimate honesty, confronting loss, resilience, and survival. More than a story of sport, it’s about carrying on when quitting isn’t an option—and finding meaning in impossible places.
Book 2
Stories Only Ever End One Way
Stories Only Ever End One Way” is a raw, unflinching memoir of love, loss, and endurance. Through Paula’s illness and death, and the relentless landscapes of Arctic ice and African heat, David Shiels confronts grief, resilience, and what it means to keep moving forward when life leaves no choice.
Book 3
Happiness
A story not of forgetting, but of carrying. Happiness doesn’t erase grief; it learns to sit beside it. This book will be about light breaking through cracks, about joy returning without betrayal, about living forward while holding memory close — a testament to healing without surrendering the past.
David Shiels
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David Shiels is a writer of endurance and emotion. His books braid grief, love, and mountains into stories that cut raw and true. He runs where others stop, carries memories into every mile, and writes with the honesty of someone who has suffered deeply yet still searches for light. Contact me:[email protected]