Author of a variety of titles including Live & Work in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Live & Work in Scandinavia, Buying a House in France and Starting a Business in France, André has also contributed to a number of other Vacation Work titles.

André was born in Ghent Belgium, but grew up in the UK and went to university in Cambridge, where he studied Indian languages and linguistics. After university his first job was teaching English to the Iranian army in Isfahan; subsequently he taught English in Germany and at a Zen temple and local high schools in Japan. He has also picked fruit in France, been a cook in Belgium and worked in a data processing office in Cologne, Germany.

After many years of experience working in publishing as a typesetter and editor and a spell with Hobsons Publishing in Cambridge, André joined Vacation Work. As well as writing a number of titles he revised Directory of Jobs and Careers Abroad in 1993 and after a spell working for the University of Oxford at the Voltaire Foundation, contributed to the successful Buying a House on the Mediterranean and Live & Work in France. He has also published Brussels: a Cultural and Literary History and Flanders: a Cultural History for Signal Books.