Please note: All our authors books for sale through Gritstone Cooperative can be found on the “Our Shop“ page.
Andrew Bibby is a writer and journalist, the author of several non-fiction books about the English landscape and outdoors and a trilogy of crime fiction titles set in the Lake District. He also writes on a range of other issues, including co-operative forms of business, community-based social enterprise and mutuality.
His extensive website can be found at www.andrewbibby.com
His latest book is These Houses are Ours.
Christopher Goddard is an author and surveyor based in Hebden Bridge. An obsessive cartographer, he has been drawing maps as long as he has been able to hold a pencil.
His distinctive hand-drawn guides to the landscape of Yorkshire complement his long-distance trail guides, all of which can be found at www.christophergoddard.net
His latest book is The English Coast Path – Book 4: East Coast.
Colin Speakman is a keen walker and environmental campaigner, and the author or co-author of over 50 outdoor books. These include The Dales Way (now in its 11th edition), and walking guides to areas both in the UK and in mainland Europe, as well as poetry, topography, biography, transport history, and two literary anthologies.
Colin’s extensive list of books can be found on his Amazon author page.
His latest book is The Nut Brown Maid.
Chiz Dakin is an “Outdoors” photographer and writer. Having discovered that she could string a few words together around her images, she has now written (or contributed to) twelve published books. She is a frequent contributor to Trail’s walking routes, and has several published magazine articles on “adventurous walks” in the Alps, Slovenia, Patagonia and the Lake District. Oh and Antartica too.
(And for her sins she also looks after both Gritstone‘s and the OWPG (Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild)’s websites).
Her website can be found at www.peakimages.co.uk
Her latest book is OS:Short Walks Made Easy: Birmingham. She also contributed many of the images used in fellow Gritstone member Andrew McCloy’s recent English Coast Path book.
Andrew McCloy is a writer, editor and journalist who specialises in walking and the outdoors. He’s written over 20 books covering all corners of the UK and spanning a variety of subjects, from long distance paths to coastal walking, national parks to countryside protection and the plight of rural pubs.
More about Andrew’s writing can be found on his OWPG (Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild) profile.
His latest books are Peak District Pubs and Great Walks on the England Coast Path.
Laurence Rose is a conservationist, naturalist and author. He has worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds since 1983 in a wide variety of roles, from nature reserve management to international advocacy. He has written or edited five books including the acclaimed The Long Spring covering four months in the spring of 2016 in which he journeyed through Europe charting the arrival of the season from North Africa to Arctic Norway.
More details of Laurence’s work can be found on his website at laurencerose.co.uk
His latest book is The Long Spring (2nd Edition).
Eileen Jones is a writer and journalist based in the Lake District. She’s the author of two books about parkrun, and a love letter to a Lakeland fell: Loughrigg: Tales of a Small Mountain, which was a runner-up in the Lake District Book of the Year awards.
Eileen can be found on Facebook, Instagram (EileeninCumbria) and BlueSky @cumbriapr.bsky.social
Her latest book is “Rydal Mount: The Story of Wordsworth’s home“.
Mike Padgett is from Barnsley and took up writing seriously when he retired. His first manuscript was shortlisted for the 2019 Impress Prize for New Writers, and his first book, ‘As Far As We Can’ (a travel/memoir based on a journey to Australia)is an Amazon best seller.
His second book, ‘Scrap’ was published in July 2023 and is a novel about the effects of the pit closure on a former miner and his family.
Mike’s latest book ‘Kicking Off‘ was published through Gritstone Cooperative in July 2025. It is set in a former mining town in the north of England and is a story of a football match between a women’s team of young care workers and a pub team of middle-aged men, back together after 30 years. Sparks fly as the two sides prepare for the challenge.
More details of Mike’s work can be found at his Amazon page
Mike Raine is a former Geography teacher and Senior Instructor at Plas y Brenin, the National Mountain Centre. He holds Mountain Leader (summer and winter), Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor and International Mountain Leader qualifications. He has extensive experience in training and assessing outdoor leaders. Mike has advised or contributed to a range of organisations including Mountain Training, the Association of Mountaineering Instructors and the Snowdonia Society.
He now specialises in professional development for outdoor leaders, delivering training that deepens understanding of the mountain environment and supports professional practice.
Mike is the author of Nature of Snowdonia (2020) and The Mountain Leader – A Practical Manual (2023). His writing combines practical insight with a deep sense of place, informed by decades of experience in upland landscapes.
Active in the hills since the 1970s, Mike continues to walk, climb, sea kayak and bikepack; experiences that inform both his writing and teaching. He also hosts the Outdoor Lives podcast, exploring people’s connections to the landscapes they inhabit.
His website is www.mikeraine.co.uk and his latest book is “End to End: Lizard Point to Cape Wrath“.
