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Signing their new books, summer 2010. Authors Sam Bleakley (Surfing Brilliant Corners, left) and Mike Thomas (Strange Things Happened on My Way to the Zoo, right).
Our company was founded by Alison Hodge in 1979. We publish non-fiction, specializing in illustrated books on art, gardening, garden history, horticulture, natural history, food and surfing – drawing inspiration from our base in the far west of Cornwall.
Our authors, artists and photographers are all specialists and leaders in their field. Our books are highly regarded for their authoritative and informed writing, and for excellence in design, illustration and production. They are appreciated all over the world, and have received international recognition:
‘a new series of handy pocket-size books from innovative Cornish publisher Alison Hodge’ (Western Morning News, 25.04.08, on our series Pocket Cornwall)
‘Superb little guide books’ (The Cornishman, 01.05.08, on our series Pocket Cornwall)
‘Valuable guide to a great coastal show ...
... one of the latest books from the excellent Penzance-based Alison Hodge Publishers.’ (Tavistock Times Gazette, on Cornwall from the Coast Path, 25.09.08)
‘Alison Hodge has produced a considerable number of books in recent years where the quality of the images and their reproduction has been remarkable in local publishing. Her publications are also notable for their design.’ (Old Cornwall, vol. XIII, no. 9, 2007)
‘Alison Hodge's books are always worth picking up.’ (Simon Parker, Western Morning News, 10.04.07)
‘you are doing garden history a great service’ (Colleen Morris, National Chair, Australian Garden History Society, January 2006)
‘clearly reaches out to both surfers and those interested in the surf’ (David F. Naar, Associate Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, on Surf Science, June 2005)
‘Alison Hodge ... is becoming one of the leading publishers of worthwhile Cornish gardening books’ (Douglas Pett in The Cornish Garden, 2005)
‘Cornish publisher Alison Hodge has produced another gem’ (The Gardener, on Douglas Pett's Creative Gardeners, 2005)
‘promises to be one of the most well-thumbed and talked-about reference works of its kind for many a year.’ (Roy Lancaster VMH, OBE, on Gardening on the Edge, July 2004)
‘Alison Hodge has come up with another great book for Gardeners & Garden Historians.’ (The Garden History Society, on Charles Fox's Glendurgan, 2004)
‘It is beautiful, I am very pleased with it. It's so different from the usual type of art book. It's more like a piece of poetry.’ (Sir Terry Frost, on his book Warm Frost, August 2003)
‘I have just recommended David Kemp's Things Reconstructed to one of our clients – it is one of my favourite books!’ (Dominic Cole, Land Use Consultants, February 2003)
In December 2005, the Western Morning News devoted three pages to botanical artist Mally Francis and her work, and featured Heligan Days: A Perpetual Diary.
Philip McMillan Browse's Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs was chosen by Tom Petherick as Book of the Week by The Sunday Telegraph Garden Notebook on 12 June 2005.
AWARDS
We were thrilled to be shortlisted for the prestigious British Book Design and Production Awards 2008 in the Brand/Series identity category, for our new Pocket Cornwall series. The series was commended in the 2009 Holyer and Gof awards for the best Cornish books published in 2008.
David Chapman’s books Wild about Cornwall and Penwith Moods both received Commendations in the 2008 Holyer an Gof Awards for the best Cornish publications of 2007.
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. This book has been reprinted twice already!
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, by Carol Trewin and Adam Woolfitt, 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 and 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.
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