We publish Sussex books and other fiction and non-fiction titles, and specialise in self-publication
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LEGACY This two-act play explores the life of Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst, social activist, arts patron and co-founder of the social experiment at Dartington Hall in Devon in the 1920s. She formed inspiring friendships with Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Cecil Beaton, Benjamin Britten and the actor-director Michael Chekhov, among many others. Legacy is the first full-length stage play by Martin Sharp, who has been writing, directing and producing for theatre, film and television since the early Nineties, and who is an award-winning film maker recognised at the New York Festivals for his documentary film Any Body Can Dance. A production of Legacy is reviewed in the British Theatre Guide.
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THE 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 James Gardner’s researches have unearthed Lefroy’s hitherto unpublished autobiography written in the condemned cell.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.
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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.
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THIS TROUBLED EARTH In this amazingly wide-ranging investigation into creation, evolution, myths, prophecies, reincarnation, religion, the metaphysical and the paranormal, the author warns that the Earth is moving rapidly into its 4th density phase – so challenging the human race to raise its consciousness to the new vibrational frequency. Subtitled “A world in crisis”, and dedicated to “all those who dare to look beyond the illusion”, it claims that the Earth is changing after 75,000 years in 3rd density, and that we need to raise our consciousness in order to survive on it. “In the little time left,” the author writes, “we all need to learn that only by a radical change from our self-serving ways towards a more harmonious social climate, and a love of our fellow creatures, will we be in a position to limit the extent of any transitional damage.” |
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WHAT PRICE HUMANITY? Here’s an impassioned polemic by an artist-author who, moved by the sumptuous beauty of the natural world, recoils in vividly expressed distaste from the human greed and violence which betrays and distorts it. Sheila Webber’s uniquely rolling prose ranges from the poetically ecstatic to the savagely condemnatory as she examines the routes mankind has taken – through politics, big business, war and the subjugation of the weak by the powerful – to subvert a benevolent natural order. Despite her unsparing analysis, however, she yet clings to the hope that, ‘rather than being of detriment to the ethos of all life on earth, whilst yet open to moral directive, we might gain at least equal status as the flies and the bees – as the bubbles dancing in a mountain stream’.
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