Truran Books has been established for over thirty years and has been in the present ownership of Heather & Ivan Corbett for the past twelve years. Originally the company specialised in books on Cornish topics only. Since then the range and style of books has been vastly increased covering Devon, Cornwall and the South-west.

	Portrait of West Penwith by Sue Lewington ISBN: 978 185022 219 4 (paperback) £8.99 210 X 147mm 72 pages 72 full colour illustrations. Having moved back to west Penwith I’ve been taking time out to rediscover a once familiar landscape. This book is a record of a summer spent walking the lanes and hills around my new home. I took a camera, sketchbook and notebook to try to catch my immediate reactions to a place I used to know so well... and think I now know and love even more. Using a variety of techniques – photography, pencil, pen and watercolour, and ink drawings Sue has captured this eternal landscape. For many this is Cornwall; a land of standing stones and ancient sites; where man has only scratched the surface; where the elements hold sway and the sky and the sea are one, where the past is ever present. For those who know this enchanted place and those who have the pleasure to come, here is a book of memories that capture that magic – that elusive dream of being ‘part of the land’.
	New book to come in May - That Bloody Woman The Turbulent Life of Emily Hobhouse By John Hall ISBN 978 185022 217 0 (paperback) £17.99 235x170mm 336 pages 55 black and white illustrations That Bloody Woman is the story of a discarded heroine. Now virtually forgotten, Emily Hobhouse was in her time one of the most controversial figures in the world, hailed as a second Joan of Arc or Florence Nightingale yet denounced as a traitor to her country. Lord Kitchener ordered her forcible deportation on a troopship and Joseph Chamberlain wondered if she posed a threat to the whole British Empire. But to her friend Mahatma Gandhi, one of a tiny minority who admired her pacifist campaigns through two wars, she was “one of the noblest and bravest of women”. This definitive new biography tells how a restless spirit drove Emily Hobhouse from the genteel Cornish rectory of her birth. A handsome, highly-strung spinster, she attempted to reform a wild gambling town in the American west and went on to lose most of her fortune in a disastrous romance. She travelled to South Africa during the Boer War to expose the British Army concentration camps in which over 26,000 died. At the height of the First World War she embarked on a secret one-woman peace mission to Berlin and narrowly avoided arrest for treason. A whirlwind of contradictions, she was a pacifist with a weakness for generals, an evangelist who shrank from talk of God, a feminist who craved wedded bliss and babies. Intense, vulnerable and defiant, she revealed flaws on the same heroic scale as her virtues, but her towering courage saved thousands of lives – mostly of women and children – at the cost of her health and reputation. It is a tragic but inspiring story involving some of the greatest names of her time, for at the height of her powers Emily Hobhouse had the ear of prime ministers, field marshals and archbishops, while finding herself reviled in the press and shunned by friends and family. Yet her lonely death in her native land was followed by a state funeral on the other side of the world with thousands gathered to “bury her like a princess”. She had a town named in her honour, plus streets without number, and there is a weird justice in the fact that she is the only pacifist to have a submarine named after her. This timely reassessment of one of the most extraordinary women of the past century is the result of eight years of research and brings to light much material previously unknown. It uncovers remarkable links between Emily Hobhouse and her great adversary Lord Kitchener, examines a lost period in her life following her broken engagement, and suggests why she is denied her rightful place in history to the present day. Illustrated by over fifty photographs, many never published before, That Bloody Woman includes a detailed family tree and a map of the concentration camps penetrated by Emily.
	Jack Pender - a tribute by Frank Ruhrmund To coincide with the first ever major retrospective exhibition of one of West Cornwall’s native talents Jack Pender Truran Books are delighted to announce publication of a book to accompany the exhibition. It is written by Frank Ruhrmund a lifelong friend of the artist and a much respected art critic with an introduction by Alison Bevan, Director of Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance . 40 full colour illustrations. ISBN: 978 185022 220 0 (paperback) £8.99 210 X 200mm 48 pages
	Edwin Harris 1855-1906 An Introduction to his Life and Art Roger Langley ISBN: 978 185022 221 7 (paperback) £8.99 210 X 200mm 48 pages 40 full colour illustrations Edwin Harris’s central placing in the group photographs of 1884 confirms his key role in the early development of the Newlyn School. His most prominent works are sizeable genre paintings, some infused with the sense of hardship and loss which was so often at the heart of his friend Langley’s work, and others much more light-hearted, even comical. While these works are very successful and excellent examples of their type, what singles Harris out among his fellow Newlyners is his exceptional skill in portraiture. The shimmering, virtuoso square-brush painting employed to produce these poignant portraits of characterful models result in works of jewel-like quality; despite their tiny size and the anonymity of the models, they have a powerful magnetism and reward many hours of gazing. Roger Langley’s meticulous research gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of this artist – one of the Newlyn School’s most important painters. Introduction by Alison Bevan, Director Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance.
	Look out for new novel to be published on 12 June by the well-known actress Susan Penhaligon. For the Love of Angel By Susan Penhaligon £6.99 ISBN 978 185022 222 4 197x128mm 270pages A novel set in Cornwall in the 1880s THE BOOK: A time of great change in Truro - set in 1880 - the foundation stone of the new cathedral is laid - there is a strike of clay workers which creates civil disorder and great strife. Florence Trevern is left to look after her baby sister when her mother drowns. Their father is over-possessive of both daughters, obsessively controlling their lives. Florence, self-willed, has to protect her sister from their father’s unhealthy love whilst trying to gain her own independence, complicated by her passion for Russell, a striking clay worker. A strong story set within an authentic Cornish background. THE AUTHOR: Susan Penhaligon, was born & bred in St Ives, an actress best known for her role as Pru in A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and as Judi Dench’s sister in A Fine Romance. More recently she has been in Emmerdale Farm playing the role of Jean Hope. She has numerous film and theatre credits including work in the West End – The Three Sisters, Dangerous Corner, Of Mice & Men and Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing.