Books on art, gardening, food, surfing and more...

Alison Hodge are publishers of high-quality, award-winning, illustrated books by leading authors. We specialize in the areas of art and photography, gardening and garden history, food, horticulture, natural history and surfing.

On this site you will find details of all our books. You can search for a book by title, author or ISBN, or browse in a particular subject area, and read the reviews. You can read about our authors, and find out about the books we are working on now.

We enjoy producing our books, and hope that you will enjoy them too. All are available for purchase online, over our secure server – many at considerable saving.


WHAT'S NEW?

Just published ...
Last summer we published Exploring the Camel Estuary – the first in our new series Pocket Cornwall. It was so popular that we have just reprinted it.

We have three new titles in the series: Exploring the Cornish Coast; Birds of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and Wildflowers of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Explore Cornwall with Pocket Cornwall – they're great little books!

David Chapman's evocative photographs of West Cornwall are featured in Penwith Moods.

In the summer, we have Cornwall from the Coast Path, by Michael Kent and Merryn Kent, and, later on, Tony Butt's The Surfer's Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates.


A USEFUL FEATURE
You can use Google Book Search to look inside many of our books. Simply follow the link from the catalogue entry.


AWARDS
We received the Waterstone's Special Award 2007 – the first of its kind – for John Such's book Cornwall from Above at the 2007 Holyer an Gof Awards.

Andrew Tompsett's book Golden Harvest: The story of daffodil growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly won First Place in its class in the 2007 Holyer an Gof Awards for the best Cornish publications of 2006. John Such's book Cornwall from Above received a Commendation in its class.

Cornish Fishing and Seafood, Carol Trewin's latest book, with photography by Adam Woolfitt, has won the Gourmand English-UK Awards 2006, in the category Best Local Cookery Book. Previous winners include Rick Stein and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are regarded as the Oscars of food and drink books, and regularly attract some 6,000 entries from 65 countries. Winners are selected for the author ‘whose personality and heart shines throughout the book’; for their high quality of production and printing, and as a user-friendly book that ‘respects and understands’ the reader.

Philip McMillan Browse's book Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs won First Place in its class in the 2006 Holyer an Gof Awards for the best Cornish publications of 2005.

Gourmet Cornwall, by Carol Trewin, with photography by Adam Woolfitt, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2005, for the Best Local Cookbook published in English in the UK. It was also shortlisted by the Guild of Food Writers for their Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food 2006.

Charles Fox's book, Glendurgan: A Personal Memoir of a Garden in Cornwall, was awarded First Place in its class in the 2005 Holyer an Gof Awards for the best Cornish publications of 2004. Suzanne Treseder's A Passion for Plants: The Treseders of Truro received a Commendation in the same class.