Books about Cornwall

£15	A PASSION FOR NATURE 19th-century Naturalism in the Circle of Charles Alexander Johns By Deirdre Dare & Melissa Hardie The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field. ISBN 978-1-872229-58-4 Large format softback 292pp. 78 illustrations in black and white Click here for more information
£15	Chatter of Choughs edited by Lucy Newlyn illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson To celebrate the return of the chough to Cornwall, this is a collection of specially commissioned work, featuring some of Britain's leading poets and scolars. ISBN 1 872229 49 Hardback 176pp illustrated in black and white Click here for more information
£10	Chatter of Choughs edited by Lucy Newlyn illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson To celebrate the return of the chough to Cornwall, this is a collection of specially commissioned work, featuring some of Britain's leading poets and scolars. ISBN 1 872229 59 X Large format softback 176pp illustrated in black and white Click here for more information
£7.50	Violets Unfold in My Throat John Gordon A collection of new verse, intertwining ancient, mythical and contemporary imagery to express themes ranging from passion, sorrow, loneliness and desire, to fantasy, mysticism, abandonment and genocide. ISBN 1 872229 57 7 Softback 97pp illustrated
£12.50	Letters to Lydia: 'beloved Persis' Barbara Eaton Fact and Fiction: the 19th-century love affair between Henry Martyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, and his 'beloved Persis' in Cornwall, Lydia Grenfell, based on their letters and diaries. ISBN 1 872229 54 9 Large Format Softback 410pp illustrated
£6	The Country of The Woodlanders Charles Simpson The famous Newlyn artist's account of his wartime agricultural work in Dorset with reference to the works of Thomas Hardy. Illustrations by the author. ISBN 1 872229 53 0 Softback 65pp illustrated
£10	100 Years in Newlyn, Diary of a Gallery Melissa Hardie (Ed.) The history of Newlyn Art Gallery (1895-1995) and the associations of artists from the early Newlyn School painters through to the present. ISBN 1 872229 22 0 Large format softback 250pp Illustrated in colour and black & white
£15	100 Years in Newlyn, Diary of a Gallery Melissa Hardie (Ed.) The history of Newlyn Art Gallery (1895-1995) and the associations of artists from the early Newlyn School painters through to the present. ISBN 1 872229 17 4 Hardback 250pp Illustrated in colour and black & white
£10	An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall 'by the author of John Halifax, Gentleman' (Dinah Maria Muloch Craik) Facsimile reprint of Mrs Craik's 1884 Travel Diary with notes by Professor Charles Thomas and Melissa Hardie. ISBN 0 9507689 6 0 Hardback 200pp Illustrated by C Napier Hemy
£7.50	Penzance 2000 - the Town and Around Melissa Hardie A history of the town of Penzance, its geographical, social and cultural life from pre-history to the present. ISBN 1 872229 40 9 Softback 110pp Illustrated
£9.95	A View from the Bottom Left-Hand Corner Andrew George, MP A compilation of articles written for The Cornishman, plus photographs and drawings describing his first term in Parliament by the MP for the St Ives constituency. ISBN 1 872229 40 9 Softback 190pp
£12.95	The Literature of Cornwall Alan M. Kent Continuity, Identity, Difference, 1000-2000. ISBN 1 90017828 1 Softback 336pp
£9.95	Cornwall, The Cultural Construction of Place Ella Westland (Ed.) Thirteen essays on 'that imagined land beyond the River Tamar' by eminent scholars and writers. ISBN 1 872229 27 1 Softback 169pp
£7.50	Salome Hocking: A Cornish Woman Writer Gemma Goodman ISBN 1 872229 51 4 Softback 82pp
£7.50	The Hensbarrow Homilies Alan Kent Kent explores his continuing concern with Cornish identity, culture and poetry. ISBN 1 872229 44 1 Softback 56pp
£5	Friends and Visitors: a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1870-1914 Katherine Bradley ISBN 1 872229 38 7 Softback 90pp
£5	'Wives, Mothers and Sisters': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall Alan Kent ISBN 1 872229 33 6 Softback 68pp
£5	A Mere Interlude: Literary Visitors to Cornwall Melissa Hardie (Ed.) Essays on Virginia Woolf, John Betjeman, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and their Cornish interludes by international scholars. ISBN 1 872229 06 9 Softback 200pp Illustrated
£9.95	Marlow Moss: Constructivist and the Reconstruction Project Florette Dijkstra The life and art of a Cornish-based artist in mid 20th century Cornwall. ISBN 1 872229 26 3 Large format softback 48pp Illustrated in colour
£7.95	Carn Voel, My Mother's House Katharine Tait A biographical memoir of the Cornish home of Bertrand and Dora Russell. ISBN 1 872229 28 X Numbered, limited-edition softback 48pp Illustrated in colour and black and white
£7.95	Postscript: With Love to Penwith Gerald Priestland Foreword by Sylvia Priestland Two essays on the early religious history of Cornwall. ISBN 1 872229 02 6 Numbered, limited-edition softback 48pp Illustrated