About Us

Santana Books is Spain's leading publisher of English language books covering all aspects of visiting and living in the country.

Located in the whitewashed Andalusian village of Mijas mid-way between Malaga and Marbella, the company has been meeting the need for information about Spain for over twenty years - from Spanish law in our highly praised and annually updated You & the Law in Spain, which appeared in its 20th edition in May last year, to cooking in the new edition of the classic Cooking in Spain, first published more than twenty years ago, and the visually striking TAPAS by the same author, and to milestones in the country's  history in The Story of Spain now in its fifth edition. 

With over forty titles now in our portfolio, expert information is also readily available on popular hobbies such as fishing and birdwatching; and our acclaimed trio of gardening books, Your Garden in Spain, Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain and Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain, soon to become a quartet, continue to assert themselves as premier titles in their field. Common Wildflowers of Spain now takes in the whole of the country, not just Andalusia as its predecessor did, and, as the new publisher of the highly regarded Mediterranean Garden Plants, we can now extend the geographical coverage even further.. 

For those readers wishing to get out and about our regularly revised Small Hotels & Inns of Andalucía, which will soon to appear in its fifth edition, and its sister title Small Hotels & Inns of Eastern Spain detail quality accommodation on the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca, while Inland Trips from the Costa Blanca, East of Malaga and the exciting new edition of Back Roads of southern Spain detail memorable excursions. In addition, the widely acclaimed Walking in Andalucía, generously expanded and with improved quality maps, has just been published in its sixth edition.

Finally, for those would-be Spanish-speakers, our Simplified Spanish Verbs and Emergency Spanish, together with our modern Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary, continue to be invaluable learning aides at a pocket-friendly price of less than €10 per title.