The Naked Guide To Cider by James Russell

Title: The Naked Guide To Cider
Author: James Russell
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 237
Price new: £6.01 (Amazon)*
Price used: £0.01 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting

Description: (TLDR)
This book covers most aspects of cider in bitesized easy to read chunks.

On the back of the book it says:
Cider and perry are enjoying a boom, but today's generation of cider enthusiasts want to do more than drink cider. As sales of  small-scale mills and presses show, they want to try making cider for themselves. They also want to explore cider country - to drink in legendary cider pubs and learn more about orchards and apple varieties. They want to get involved, to make and discover things for themselves, and The Naked Guide To Cider will  show them how.
This is a new kind of cider book for a new generation of cider lovers. The Naked Guide To Cider will introduce cider lovers to the history and culture of their favorite tipple, and demonstrate, in vivid detail and with clear step-by-step instructions, how to make their own cider. At the same time it will help people to explore cider country, showing where they can visit and where they can drink, buy or learn about cider.

In Search Of Cider by Alan Stone

Title: In Search Of Cider Cider and Cider Makers in Cornwall, Devon Dorset and Somerset
Author: Alan Stone
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 223
Price new: £9.99 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting

Description: (TLDR)
Mostly the back stories of possibly all of the cider producers in the counties listed above.

On the back of the book it says:
"More than 100 cider makers have been hunted out and interviewed in Alan  Stone's epic journey around the four south westernmost counties. Someone had to do it and he could think of a lot worse things to do.
He paints a detailed picture of the cider heritage both as it has been and as it is now as cider enjoys a revival that has brought back a 'golden age' last seen in the 17th and 18th centuries.
This is essential reading for anyone who enjoys cider and wants to find out more."

Golden Fire: The Story Of Cider by Ted Bruning

Title: Golden Fire: The Story Of Cider

Author: Ted Bruning

Year: 2012

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 210

Price new: £6.95 (Amazon)*

*accurate at the time of posting

Description: (TLDR)

The long journey through the history of cider presented from it's beginnings to the modern day in order. 

On the back of the book it says:

"Cider is a drink whose time has come. Twenty years ago it was a minority taste competing with lager for a share of the keg-and can market, and much favoured by under-age and problem drinkers for it's strength and cheapness. Since then it's popularity has soared, and it has become the drink of choice - especially in hot weather - for all sectors of society.

But because of the low status of many mass-market brands, cider has never attracted the attention of researchers and writers to the extent that beer, win and spirits have. And nobody, until now, has attempted to unravel the many myths, legends and misconceptions that surround it's origins and development to present a factual narrative history.

In cider, as legend has it, the oldest alcoholic drink of them all, or is it in fact a comparatively recent introduction ? Did it come to Britain with the Celts, the Romans, or the Normans ? Were medieval babies really baptised in it ?

Golden Fire: The Story Of Cider takes a long, cool, refreshing look at the evolution of one of Britain's favourite beverages and answers all those questions."

World's Best Cider by Pete Brown and Bill Bradshaw

Title: World's Best Cider: Taste, Tradition and Terroir, from Somerset to Seattle
Author:      Pete Brown and Bill Bradshaw
Year: 2013
Format:        Hardback
Page Count: 256
Price new:     £7.99 (Amazon)*
Price used:    £4.90 (Amazon)*
*Accurate at the time of posting

Description: (TLDR)
A coffee table book with many beautiful pictures and covering numerous varieties of cider from all over the world.

On the back of the book it says:
"Cider is becoming the next big thing, a drink to rival both beer and Champagne (too right ! tb) and one that is found both down muddy farm  tracks and on crisp, Michelin-starred menus.
Pete Brown and Bill Bradshaw, two of the planets greatest cider experts, take us on a voyage of cider discovery, introducing us to the people and places that define their art and craft of cider-making and cider-drinking.
A 'Cider Basics' section includes details on how cider is made, how to taste it and apple types. Profiles of key cider producers reveal the art of cider making in various terroirs.
Tasting notes from over 240 of the world's finest ciders, from Somerset to Seattle,  Cantabria to Canada.
This  is the complete story of cider, from fruit to fermenting, apple to aperitif."

"The Authors
Pete Brown is Britain's most successful beer writer and blogger (www.petebrown.blogspot.com) and in 2009 and 2012 he was named Beer Writer of the Year. He writes regular columns in brewing and trade magazines in the UK and the US and has written four books: Man  Walks into a Pub; Three Sheets to the Wind; Hops and Glory; and Shakespeare's Local.
Bill Bradshaw is a freelance photographer from Somerset who has been passionately  documenting cider from around the world since 2004 and his award-winning work has been published internationally. He frequents all corners of the cider world, whether shooting personal work, consulting for business or judging cider competitions. His images and travels are documented on his blog www.iamcider.blogspot.com"

Cider Apples The New Pomona by Liz Copas

Title:             Cider Apples The New Pomona
Author:         Liz Copas
Year:            2013
Format:         Hardback
Page Count: 158
Price new:     £16.50 self published, details from www.lizcopas.com

Description: TLDR
Photo's, line drawings and notes on 160 varieties of cider apple.

On the back of the book it says:
"Now including Cider Apples from all the major cider growing counties; Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Hereford and Worcester and including thennew 21st Century Cider Apples, the Girls.
Liz copas, Cider Pomologist at Long Ashton Research Station and Orcharding Advisor for the National Association of Cider Makers for many years, has put together this extended edition of the Pomona. 
So much has happened in the cider world since 1999 when the first edition was published. This book comes at a time when cider drinking and cidermaking has never been so popular and the conservation  of traditional values and the coonservation of regional distinctiveness is imperative. The continued success of our craft ciders depends so much on the raw materials, cider apples.
This book describes the merits of a wide range of apples that the average hunter-gatherer cidermaker might be able to find and gives plenty of help in tracking them down and identifying them.
Over 160 varieties are described together with cider making qualities, all with full colour photos, line drawings and keys to aid identification."