He also put together the world's largest collections of English-language bridge books, magazines and Ephemara.
His 2010 publication Bridge Books in English 1886 to 2010 - an annotated bibliography with co-author John Sugden contains over 700 pages of listings.
Bourke also assisted the late Anthony Moon in his multi-book project on bridge squeezes.
[1] His joint project with Justin Corfield "the Art of Declarer Play" won the International Bridge Press Book of the Year award in 2014.
Bourke is an honorary member of IPBA, providing journalists with four deals per month for use without attribution as well as MS-Word documents based on BBO files from major championships around the world.