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Alison Hodge Publishers Alison Hodge Publishers (also Alison Hodge) is an independent publisher of illustrated books on art and photography, gardening, garden history, horticulture, natural history, food and surfing – subjects related to its base in Cornwall, England. Alison Hodge’s Pocket Cornwall series is especially well known.

History
Alison Hodge Publishers was founded by Alison Hodge in 1979 in Penzance, Cornwall. Alison Hodge was born in 1948 and has an MA from the University of Birmingham. She worked as an editorial assistant for C. Hurst & Co., as an editor for Thomas Nelson & Sons, and as Senior Editor for Nelson Nigeria, before returning briefly to Thomas Nelson & Sons as a commissioning editor. From 1977 to 1982, she was proprietor of a bookshop in Penzance, publishing her first title, A St Ives Album by Andrew Lanyon – a collection of old photographs of St Ives in 1979. In the 1990s Alison Hodge was appointed Textbook Research and Development Adviser for the Overseas Development Administration – predecessor of the Department for International Development (DFID) – in Jamaica, before returning full time to Alison Hodge Publishers. In 2007 the Pocket Cornwall series was established, and the following year it was shortlisted in the British Book Design and Production Awards in the Brand/Series identity category. Alison Hodge publishes approximately six new books a year.

Awards

 * The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern 1873–1954 by Charles E. Harvey won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History in 1981.
 * Two books by Carol Trewin, illustrated by photographer Adam Woolfitt – Gourmet Cornwall and Cornish Fishing and Seafood – won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Local Cookbook published in English in the UK, in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
 * Numerous books published by Alison Hodge have been recognized in the annual Holyer an Gof awards for the best Cornish publications.