Summersdale Publishers

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Summersdale Publishers
Founded	1990
Founder	Stewart Ferris and Alastair Williams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Chichester, West Sussex
Distribution	Littlehampton Book Services (UK) Peribo (Australia) Nationwide Book Distributors (New Zealand) SG Distributors (South Africa) Trafalgar Square Publishing (US & Canada)^[1]
Publication types	Books
Official website	summersdale.com

Summersdale Publishers Ltd (often simply Summersdale) is an English independent publishing firm of non-fiction. The company is based in Chichester, West Sussex.

Founded in 1990 by Stewart Ferris and Alastair Williams, it has since published over 800 titles, and has an output of around 90 books per year.