We publish Sussex books and other fiction and non-fiction titles, and specialise in self-publication
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
 |
Other Non-FictionTHE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT - The true story of a Victorian murder on the London to Brighton railway line. In 1881 retired businessman Frederick Gold was murdered in a train down from London, his body thrown into the Balcombe tunnel. Percy Lefroy, a strange and colourful character, was later hanged for the crime, which caused a sensation in Victorian England. Wax models of Gold and Lefroy were created at Madame Tussauds, and while Lefroy was on the run dozens of innocent men were arrested because of a resemblance to his picture on the 'Wanted' posters. James Gardner’s researches have unearthed Lefroy’s hitherto unpublished autobiography written in the condemned cell. It shows him to have been a fantasist with literary pretensions who killed in desperation as he fell deeper and deeper into debt. The story also involves one of the leading young actresses of the day, who was forced to deny any relationship with Lefroy – but whose later fall from grace strangely echoed facts he had invented about her. Drawing richly on newspapers of the time and other contemporary material, the book will appeal both to those interested in Victorian social history and to devotees of true crime stories.
|
|
||
|
BODY WORSHIP – the frank, wildly humorous and preposterously near-the-knuckle
memoirs of a Brighton "erotic services provider"
. Meet Letitcia. She’s been there, she’s seen it and she’s most certainly done it – many, many times. She even managed to shock the unshockable Julie Burchill along the way. Letitcia’s accounts of her sexploits as an erotic services provider in Australia, England and several places in between are by turns hilarious and cringe-making, raunchy and risqué. She knows the male of the species inside out, and in this unique revelation of the sex-for-sale business she spills the beans about his desperate attempts to satisfy a slew of irrepressible lusts and longings – often in the most outlandish ways. Unapologetically non-PC, Letitcia gives us her trenchant views about Australians (lousy lovers), Malaysians (sexual hypocrites) and Japanese (eager to please in bed). As for the English, they appear in a variety of guises – anal retentive, malodorous, kinky, exploitative and, just now and then, considerate enough to want to give a girl a good time, too. Beach bum gigolos, sex oral and aural, dating agencies, sex aids, domination, painful accidents, the rate for the job and what men really want from women – this vibrant book offers a unique and unforgettable view of the underbelly of human sensuality.
|
|