Welcome to our online St Ives and Cornwall bookshop - a selection of guides and maps to help you to plan and enjoy your visit.

Part of the well know "Rough Guides" series this guidebook provides wider coverage of the South West.

Useful if you are planning to tour the region as well as visting St Ives and covering all the main towns and visitor attractions.

It includes honest and opinionated reviews of accommodation, places to eat and drink to suit every budget.

There is practical advice on outdoor activities such as walking the coast path and surfing, plus a guide to the best beaches. Also a review of the history and culture of the region.

A good all round guidebook and a good companion to the more detailed local guides above.

A Dorling Kindersley publication and like their other travel guides it is lavishly illustrated with drawings, photographs and maps. Plus of course plenty of useful information for the traveller.

It includes recommendations for where to stay and shoppping plus restaurant reviews.

The format is to list "top 10" in various categories such as places to visit, scenic drives and days out with children.

It also include a top 10 things to avoid in the area.

Another good all round guide that will give you plenty of ideas for days out and places to visit.

This is the best map of the local area that you will find - covering West Cornwall from Lands end up to Godrevy Point on the north coast and Praa Sands on the south coast.

This 'Explorer' map is the most detailed published by Ordnance Survey and is perfect if you enjoy outdoor activities such as walking, cycling or horse riding. It will also be useful if you are planning to explore the area by car.

It contains a huge amount of detail - as well as all roads it includes footpaths, bridleways, cylce trails, ancient mouments, churches, pubs, museums - just about everything of interest in the area.

Invaluable if you wish to explore the countryside around St Ives.

One of the most popular day trips (or longer) from St Ives is to visit The Scillies. You can take the helicopter from Penzance Heliport, the plane from Lands End Airport or The Scillonian ferry from Penzance Harbour.

The islands offer some great walking so this map will help you to explore the beauty of the area.

Like the map above it contains details of just about everything that you might want to visit on the islands.

A map covering the whole of Cornwall - ideal if you are planning to tour around the whole county by road.

It is large scale, easy to read and includes tourist information plus where to park in the major towns. Also a place name index to help you to find you planned destination easily.

So - if you are planning to venture further afield to visit some of Cornwall's great attractions as Eden Project, The Lost Gardens of Heligan and The National Maritime Museum - this will be useful.

The link on the right will display Amazon's latest recommendations for local books.

These may relate to travel, art, culture or anything else relating to St Ives.

Click on the link to go to Amazon's store where you can buy the recommended book or search for other related books and products.

This detailed but pocket sized guide to the town is just what you need for your visit. Written by an author who knows and loves St Ives well - this is very different from the average guidebook.

It covers the practical subjects of travel, accommodation, where to eat and things to do. It also has extensive coverage of arts and culture in the town - including visual arts, literature and music.

'I have received the books, and am delighted. I have been down to St Ives loads of times but there were lots of useful titbits in there that I didn't know. I have to say they are the best guidebooks I have ever read! I ..... ' Jenny. Sheffield.

Buy it now and enjoy planning your visit before you come down.
It costs just £5.99 plus £1.49 postage and packing.