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, now in its 20th edition, to cooking in the  classic Cooking in Spain and the visually striking TAPAS by the same author, to milestones in the country's history in The Story of Spain, now in its fifth edition.

With nearly forty titles now in our portfolio, expert information is also readily available on popular hobbies such as fishing and birdwatching. Our acclaimed quartet of gardening books, Your Garden in Spain, Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain, Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain and the recently published Apartment Gardening Mediterranean Style, continue to assert themselves as leading titles in their field. Common Wildflowers of Spain now takes in the whole of the country rather than just Andalusia and the new edition of Mediterranean Garden Plants extends that coverage even further.

For readers wishing to get out and about our bienially revised Small Hotels & Inns of Andalucía and its sister title Small Hotels & Inns of Eastern Spain detail memorable accommodation on the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca respectively, while Inland Trips from the Costa Blanca, East of Malaga and the exciting new edition of Back Roads of southern Spain detail equally memorable excursions. In addition, the widely acclaimed Walking in Andalucía is now available in a sixth edition with improved quality maps.

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 each.