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, garden history, horticulture, natural history, food and surfing.

This site contains full details of all our books – in print and forthcoming – and information about their authors. You can use Google Book Search to look inside lots of the books … just follow the link from the catalogue entry. If you would like to make a purchase, it couldn’t be simpler … put the book in your shopping basket, and go to Google Checkout.

Please note that our office will be closed 1–30 September. We will not be able to supply personal orders from this site during September.

We enjoy producing our books, and we hope you enjoy them too.

WHAT'S NEW?
Recently published and available from this site are Sam Bleakley's Surfing Brilliant Corners, which details a decade of extreme surf travel; David Chapman's A Cornish Year, which chronicles a year in the life of this award-winning wildlife writer and photographer, and Mike Thomas's Strange Things Happened on My Way to the Zoo, an entertaining account of how the author came to be an owner of the Seal Sanctuary, and then bought the ailing Newquay Zoo.

We are adding more titles to our popular Pocket Cornwall series. Steve Jones' Insects of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Simon Camm's Cornish Rocks and Minerals, and Bernard Deacon's Cornwall and the Cornish are now available.

Explore Cornwall with Pocket Cornwall… they’re great little books, and great value for money!


EVENTS
You can see superb wildlife photographs by our authors David Chapman and Steve Jones at Wildlife on the Edge, an exhibition at the Hard Rock Gallery at Geevor Tin Mine until 12 September 2010.

Steve Jones is also exhibiting at the Sierra Grazalema, in Andalucia, until 7 October 2010.

Mike Thomas, author of Strange Things Happened on My Way to the Zoo, will give a talk and sign copies of his book at the Roseland Literary Festival on 30 October. The event will take place at the Idle Rocks Hotel, St Mawes, at 2.30 p.m.
He will give a talk to the Friends of the Eden Project on 18 November at 5.30 p.m., and sign copies of his book at Waterstones in Truro in December.

Sam Bleakley will sign copis of Surfing Brilliant Corners at Waterstones in Truro in December.


NEWS
Red Group Retail, a leading books, stationery and entertainment retailer in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, has chosen Sam Bleakley's book Surfing Brilliant Corners for special promotion in its Christmas catalogue this year.

David Chapman's photograph of a great spotted woodpecker drumming is a finalist in the 2010 International Garden Photographer of the Year competition.


FIRM FAVOURITES
Just a click away are wildlife artist Dick Twinney's From Hedgerow to High Tor; Tony Butt's The Surfer's Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates, and Sarah Chapman's Iconic Cornwall.

For walkers, we have Cornwall from the Coast Path, Exploring the Cornish Coast and Exploring the Camel Estuary.

For stunning photographs of Cornwall, try John Such's Cornwall from Above, David Chapman's Penwith Moods, or Mark Webster's Beneath Cornish Seas.