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Patrick has written ten books of his own, which have been sold in Europe, Australia, South Africa, North America and Russia.
His first book, published in 1984, was An A - Z of Unemployment, a dictionary of information for people going through the unemployment process during the years of mass joblessness at that time.
The second book, for Harper Collins, was a basic guide to ski holidays, published in 1985 when Patrick had only actually been to four ski resorts!
In 1986 Patrick toured the Soviet Union at the invitation of the state publisher, Progress (Discovering some ski resorts in the Arctic Circle where skiing was prescribed free-of-charge by Russian doctors to keep the locals' blood circulating in the perpetual polar darkness). The resulting book was published worldwide shortly before the regime crumbled (and, luckily for Patrick, he was paid shortly before his agreed royalty would have devalued by several thousand percent!)
In the late 1980s Patrick wrote three skiing guides for Swiss-based publisher Berlitz and a general guide book to Austria for US publisher Globe Pequot and a special guide for teenagers planning their first independent holidays.
In the 1990s Patrick moved increasingly in to CD ROM and then internet publishing, however he did write a second book for Globe Pequot in the early 1990s, the 120,000 word Off The Beaten Track, Scotland.
Between 1996 and 1998, two editions of The World Ski and Snowboarding Guide, targeted at travel agents, were published by Columbus Press in London and distributed in Europe and North America. The book used the Snow Hunter database Patrick had built to give information on 3,000 ski centres - more than five times as many ski centres as its closest competitor at the time.
