We publish Sussex books and other fiction and non-fiction titles, and specialise in self-publication
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Apart from the books he has published himself, David Arscott has written many for other publishers. Here are a few currently in print, all available through the Sussex Book Club.
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WUNT BE DRUV – A Salute to the Sussex Dialect Here’s a feast of linguistic fun, tracing the origins of the Sussex dialect and capturing the warmth and humour to be found among those who live in the county. There are sections on Sussex place names, local characters and the folk scene, a dictionary of Sussex words and a hilarious look at British history as viewed through the eyes of local people. The dialect has almost disappeared – but we find a few last traces before it’s too late.
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THE NEAT AND NIPPY GUIDE TO LEWES A pocket-sized tour of the county town, which punches above its weight with a castle, river, brewery, crown courts and county gaol. Lewes is a compact town rich in history, and this nutshell walker's guide explores the attractive High Street and its environs, discovering curiosities and the relics of former times at every turn. Generously illustrated and complete with sketch maps.
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AMBERLEY CASTLE Few English castles enjoy as idyllic a setting as Amberley, cradled by the chalk Downs and lapped by water meadows famed for their wildlife. The castle (now a luxury country house hotel) has its origins in a timber-framed open hall built in 1103 by the Norman Bishop of Chichester. To follow the highs and lows of this remarkable medieval survivor is to witness 900 years of history passing before our eyes. Attractively illustrated.
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SUSSEX PRIVIES Vivid, anecdotal, gruesome, crammed with outlandish information, blushingly funny, this is a descriptive and pictorial tribute to the lavatories of yesteryear. If your own 'little room' seems unassuming, shudder to the discomforts of the leaking shacks up the garden path to which your grandparents repaired on dark and windy nights.
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CHAILEY HERITAGE: A HUNDRED YEARS In 1903 the remarkable Grace Kimmins brought a handful of crippled children from London to her new craft school in a dilapidated former workhouse at Chailey. Shamelessly badgering the great and the good to promote her great enterprise, she saw it expand over four separate sites, offering help and hope to hundreds of youngsters who would otherwise have found themselves thrown on life's scrapheap. Today the Heritage is on a single site again, and has a worldwide reputation for the specialist care it offers children with severe physical handicaps. Lavishly illustrated.
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SUSSEX BEDSIDE BOOK This collection of prose and poetry is a celebration of the sights and sounds of Sussex - its history, people, landscape and character. There are extracts from newspapers, family diaries, gravestone epitaphs and parish records, and the authors include Belloc, William Blake, John Evelyn, Graham Greene, Richard Jefferies, Rudyard Kipling and Virginia Woolf.
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