Astles, Cariad, Mello, Alissa and Orenstein, Claudia (2019) Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415787390

Astles, Cariad and Tsaplina, Marina (2020) Puppetry: The Art of Puppetry Practice: Embodiment, Enchantment, Memory, History. In: The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 296-301. ISBN 9781138579903

Astles, Cariad (2018) Presence and Memory: Tadeusz Kantor’s Living Puppet Theatre 1. In: Tadeusz Kantor’s Memory: Other Pasts, Other Futures. Institute of Grotowski, London. ISBN 9781910203064

Astles, Cariad (2016) Swazzles of Subversion: Puppets Under Dictatorship. In: Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis and Extremity. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 103-120. ISBN 9781137454263

Astles, Cariad (2012) Absent Bodies and Objects. In: Butterflying Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, pp. 193-204. ISBN 9780708324806

Astles, Cariad (2012) Puppetry for Development. In: The Power of the Puppet. UNIMA Commission for Education, Development and Therapy, Zagreb, pp. 63-78. ISBN 9789539685667

Astles, Cariad (2009) African Presence in Cuban Theatre. In: Diasporas. African Theatre, 8 . James Currey, Woodbridge, Suffolk, pp. 26-38. ISBN 9781847015013

Astles, Cariad (2009) Barcelona: Earth, Puppets and Embodiment. In: Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, pp. 97-113. ISBN 9781443811200

Astles, Cariad (2009) Dancing Giants and Bigheads: Processions and Puppets in Catalonia. In: Animated Bodies: A Review of Puppetry and Related Arts. Animations in Print (3). Puppet Centre Trust, London, pp. 44-47. ISBN 9780904842074

Astles, Cariad, Fisher, Emma, Purcell-Gates, Laura and Sextou, Persephone (2020) Broken Puppet Symposia. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 200-207. ISSN 2040-2457

Astles, Cariad (2020) Collaborations Between Surgery and Puppetry: Rachel Warr. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 177-180. ISSN 2040-2457

Astles, Cariad, Fisher, Emma, Purcell-Gates, Laura and Sextou, Persephone (2020) Editorial. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 3-13. ISSN 2040-2457

Fisher, Emma and Astles, Cariad (2020) Puppet Theatre under Covid-19. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 163-170. ISSN 2040-2457

Astles, Cariad (2020) Puppets, Women and Health in Togo: An Interview with Vicky Tsikplonou. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 185-188. ISSN 2040-2457

Astles, Cariad (2020) The UNIMA Research Commission. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 197-199. ISSN 2040-2457

Astles, Cariad (2020) Walk in/Walk As My Shoes: Puppetry and Prosocial Empathy in Healthcare. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 29-47. ISSN 2040-2457

Astles, Cariad and Piragibe, Mario (2019) Nine Questions on Teaching Directing for Puppetry: a Trans-cripting Recreation of a Dialogue. Moin-Moin, 15:11 (21). pp. 432-457. ISSN 2595-0347

Astles, Cariad (2019) Postcolonialism and Hybridity in British Puppetry. Critical Stages (19). ISSN 2409-7411

Astles, Cariad (2010) Puppetry Training for Contemporary Live Theatre. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 1 (1). pp. 22-35. ISSN 1944-3927

Astles, Cariad (2009) Wood and Waterfall: Puppetry Training and its Anthropology. Performance Research, 14 (2). pp. 54-59. ISSN 1352-8165