Pennine Pens, independent web developers and publishers based in Hebden Bridge. We design, develop and maintain web pages/sites, create eBooks and still publish the traditional book.


No Direction Home:
the 1960s

by Chris Ratcliffe

Snapshots from the sixties, the decade music changed, student occupations, May 68 in Paris and the University of Essex, banned from campus and much more. Read more.

120 pages. £5.95.



Gentleman Jack is Sally Wainwright's series on primetime BBC1, featuring the life of Anne Lister. The first series was inspired by our publication of the book by Jill Liddington: Natures' Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire

Natures DomainNature’s Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire

This remarkable book by Jill Liddington has remained in print for twenty years.

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Amazon Review: "“Loved this book. I have read several books on the life of Anne Lister and Jill Liddington has produced the best by far. An amazing book about an amazing woman.”



Natures DomainCycling in Search of the Cathars

by Chris Ratcliffe and Elaine Connell

Reprinted in late 2022 with, for the first time, a full colour cover and some coloured photos inside.

The Cathars thrived in medieval Languedoc, now part of south-west France.

In 1987, Chris Ratcliffe and Elaine Connell spent several months cycling around the mountains and valleys of the area. Their aim was to find out more about these mediaeval heretics with modern ideas. This is revised edition, with full colour cover, and colour photos inside, of the successful Cycling in Search of the Cathars which was first published in 1991.

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