Andrew Bibby


 

 Details of all my books are available on this website. I have also archived on this site a wide range of newspaper articles and reports which I have written over the years. This includes work undertaken for a number of international and national organisations and for UK newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian and Financial Times. If you wish to access anything from this archived material, please use the menu above.

Contact Andrew Bibby
   

 

   

After more than twenty-five years as a successful freelance journalist, I have now left journalism to spend more time on book-writing. 

FORTHCOMING (Publication March 1st 2025)

The author takes a walk south from Edinburgh through the Scottish borders to the Cheviots and the English border… and then carries on walking to North Yorkshire and the river Swale. The journey is one of discovery into the distinctive landscapes of the border lands, and the book draws on themes as varied as history, folk tradition, land usage and land ownership to understand how, particularly as a consequence of climate change, these landscapes are being radically changed once again.

My latest book, These Houses are Ours: Co-operative and Community-led Housing Alternatives, 1870-1919, was published in early 2023. Details here. From bookshops or from Gritstone Publications website.

"Uniquely detailed... Well worth a read" - Tom Chance, The Land magazine

Interested? Have a look at these extracts.

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I have written for many years on the the themes of co-operative business and mutuality. All Our Own Work is my history of the workers who successfully ran their own textile mill, one of the most significant of Britain's nineteenth century manufacturing cooperatives (Merlin Press, 2015).

Too Hot for Comfort completes my set of three crime novels in the Cumbrian Fells trilogy. My two earlier books are The Bad Step and In the Cold of the Night. All three books are published by Gritstone Publishing. (All also available as Kindle ebooks.)

 

I am the author of a number of non-fiction books on English landscape, including most recently Back Roads Through Middle England (Gritstone, 2018, in print).

OUTDOOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018.

Read the reviews here. To order this book online, visit the Gritstone website. A Kindle ebook version is also available.

The fourth, entirely revised, edition of my Walking in Purbeck guidebook (Dovecote Press, in print) offers fifteen walks for residents and visitors to this part of Dorset. Colour maps and illustrations.