Foote Wood's first nationally-published book, "Nellie's Book", about the early life of his mother, Nellie Mape, was published by Sutton in 2006. Foote Wood has gone on to write several more books, including "When I'm Sixty-Four" (1,001 things to do at 60+), and a comprehensive guide to the 56 remaining seaside pleasure piers in Britain, "Walking Over the Waves", launched on Brighton Palace Pier in June 2008. He followed this up with a "blog book" of his journey around the coast of Britain, "My Great British Pier Trip", as well as organising the Great British Pier Crawl 2008.