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 go to my home page.
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Andrew Bibby - complete publications list
Social/co-operative history
These Houses Are Ours (Gritstone
Publishing,
2023). The history of co-operative and community led housing before
1919. More details and a chance to look at three extracts and the
index here.
All Our Own Work, the 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). In print.
Outdoors/ Landscape and Travel titles
Back Roads Through Middle England (Gritstone Publishing, 2017) In print.
OUTDOOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 (Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild awards, October 2018)
Three crime novels with a strong outdoor theme, set in the high Lake District Fells, The Bad Step, In the Cold of the Night and Too Hot for Comfort are published in paperback format by Gritstone Publishing. In print. Also available in Kindle ebook format.
Walking in Purbeck (Dovecote Press,
in print)
Fourth, entirely revised edition with colour maps and illustrations. Click
on the image below to access two extracts from the book.
The Backbone of England: Landscape and life on the Pennine watershed (Frances Lincoln). Hardback published March 2008; revised paperback edition Spring 2011. Out of print. Kindle edition remains available.
Freedom to Roam Guides (Published by Frances Lincoln Ltd in conjunction with the Ramblers' Association, 2005/2006 - these books are now out of print.)
- Wharfedale and Nidderdale (the southern Yorkshire Dales)
- Wensleydale and Swaledale (the northern Yorkshire Dales)
- South Pennines and the Bronte Moors
- Forest of Bowland with Pendle Hill and West Pennine Moors
- The Pennine Divide
On telework and ICT
Home is Where the Office Is: A Practical Handbook for Teleworking from Home (Hodder, 1991, out of print)
Teleworking: Thirteen Journeys to the Future of Work (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1995,
out of print)
Teleworking and Trade Union Strategy (FIET, 1996)
Information and Communication Technologies in Europe: the trade union perspective (ed) (UNI, 2002)
On social issues:
Hospice Without Walls (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1999)
Young Carers in Their Own Words (ed.,with Saul Becker)(Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2000)
Children's novel
Me, Mick and M31 (Pennine Pens, 1995, in print)
There is something mysterious about Molly's new next-door neighbour. Why does she have a big pink van which advertises pizzas? Where does she drive off to late at night? And what has this to do with a strange organisation called Fight the Light, with its instructions to keep watching M31? More information and ordering details from the publishers (also now available as an ebook)