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Title: The Sussex Trilogy
Author: David Arscott
No county is more endearingly English than Sussex, with its
scatterings of little flint and tile-hung cottages lost along
winding country lanes. Few can match the scenic variety that makes
this landscape of sea-sprayed chalk cliffs, rolling Downs and
densely wooded Weald such a haven for wildlife. None has more
tangible history, in the way of Bronze Age burial mounds, Iron Age
hillforts, Roman villas, Norman castles, medieval monastic ruins,
ancient parish churches, Elizabethan manor houses, coaching inns,
windmills and canals.
The Sussex Trilogy brings together in an
attractive binder David Arscott’s three lavishly illustrated
volumes on the county: In Praise of Sussex (a celebration of our
Sussex heritage in memorable poetry and prose); The Sussex Story
(the most comprehensive Sussex history package ever devised); and
Living Sussex (the wildlife safari that begins on your doorstep).
Special feature include striking original
watercolours and line-drawings by David Marl, suggestions of
hundreds of places to visit, with map references for easy
exploration, and exhaustive indexes and gazetteers in all three
volumes – making The Sussex Trilogy an unrivalled guide to the
county’s history, wildlife and literature. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 5 7 |
| Format: Bound set of large format paperbacks;
288 pages; colour and black & white illustrations |
| Price: £25.00 |
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Title: Wild Orchids of
Sussex Author: David Lang
Stunning to look at and increasingly threatened by the
destruction of their habitats, orchids epitomise the fragile beauty
of our traditional English flora. These wonderful plants have
fascinated botanists and ordinary nature lovers for centuries, as
David Lang reveals in a vivid and often highly amusing account of
the county’s intrepid orchid hunters from the 17th century onwards.
Packed with high quality colour photographs,
this first ever book dedicated to Sussex orchids contains a wealth
of scientific detail, with distribution maps for all 33 species
found in the county today, some of them very rare. It will appeal
alike to the keen botanist and to anyone who enjoys exploring our
still verdant countryside in search of a subtle and alluring beauty. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 3 0 |
| Format: Paperback; 144 pages; full colour |
| Price: £14.95 |
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Title: Brave New City
Brighton & Hove Past, Present, Future Author:
Anthony Seldon
Brash and exotic, vivacious and louche, Brighton has a famously
colourful past, but what does the future hold for Britain’s
premier seaside resort? In this remarkable book, Anthony Seldon
presents his vision of a bold and beautiful city by the sea – a
Brighton and Hove for the 21st century, built around the values of
commerce, culture and community, and enjoying a rejuvenated
seafront, a lively arts scene and a thriving business sector.
Looking back to earlier glories, and drawing
on the achievements of maritime towns in Britain and other parts of
the world, this powerful polemic urges us to reject conformity and
compromise in order to create a vibrant international city for
tomorrow. |
| ISBN: 0 9542587 1 1 |
| Format: Hardback; 160 A4 pages; full colour |
| Price: £20.00 |
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Title: Cycling Sussex
Author: Adam Trimingham
Many miles of new cyclist-friendly thoroughfares are being opened
in Sussex every year, and in this colourful guide veteran Argus
columnist Adam Trimingham pilots us along a host of safe and
attractive routes in our towns and through our beautiful Sussex
countryside. At its centre are a dozen rides suitable for all the
family, most of them circular and all of them starting and finishing
at railway stations. A series of clear and handsome maps makes this
book the indispensable get-about guide for everyone on two wheels in
Sussex. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 9 X |
| Format: Paperback; 112 pages; full colour;
routes with maps |
| Price: £9.99 |
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Title: The Sussex Tree
Book Author: Owen Johnson
Great hollowed oaks, towering conifers, ancient churchyard yews
– Owen Johnson takes us on a fascinating and gorgeously
illustrated tour of our Sussex champion trees, native and exotic. A
feast of colourful tree lore, this unique volume is ideal both for
the ordinary lover of our leafy countryside and for the more
scientfically minded who will find here the very first county guide
to an amazing range of more than a thousand different species.
Visiting these remarkable historic trees is made easy by the
inclusion of a detail gazetterf, with a special section for those
who (like the author) get about by public transport. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 0 6 |
| Format: Paperback; 96 A4 pages; full colour |
| Price: £9.99 |
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Title: The Sussex Gardens
Book Author: David Arscott
From the spectacular and internationally famous collections of
exotic on the acid soils of the High Weald to a small and relatively
unsung miracle of planting on the South Downs chalk, Sussex has a
wonderfully varied array of gardens. David Arscott’s sumptuous
guide leads us to major gardens regularly open to the public, with
details of their opening hours, special attractions, regular events
and the best times of year to enjoy their colourful displays. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 6 5 |
| Format: Paperback; 24 A4 landscape pages; full
colour |
| Price: £4.99 |
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Title: The Sussex
Millennium Book Author: David
Arscott
This dazzling souvenir of the Millennium Moment provides
page-by-page snapshots of the past twenty centuries in Sussex. It
includes vivid illustrations bringing each century of the past to
life, together with dozens of places to visit. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 4 9 |
| Format: Paperback; 24 A4 landscape pages; full
colour |
| Price: £5.00 |
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Title: The Upstart
Gardener Author: David Arscott
When writer and broadcaster David Arscott took over a plot of
wasteland in Sussex he looked for an experienced gardener to help
him develop it. In Bert Winborne he found not only a champion
grower, but a man steeped in the traditions of the old country
houses where he’d worked, man and boy, from the early 1920s.
This engaging book includes tales of the old
days at the big houses, when her ladyship demanded violets every day
of the year and the wily head gardener buttered up the fearsome
cook; countless ‘wrinkles’ on the sowing, planting and growing
of vegetables; and an unfolding drama as our intrepid pair enter the
local horticultural show and strive to grow winning specimens on
ground choked with bindweed, horseshoes, spark plugs and old false
teeth. |
| ISBN: 1 870213 03 3 |
| Format: Paperback; 116 pages |
| Price: £4.95 |
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Title: A Boyhood in the
Weald Author: Neil Lyndon
Neil Lyndon’s beloved heartland is an area of the Sussex Weald
where his younger self relished his first new bicycle, his first
banana and his first kiss; where the sun seemed always to be shining
on the cricket square; and where he was to pass from the innocence
of a small village school to the bitterly remembered experience of
flogging and failure at Collyer’s School in Horsham. This
wonderful evocation of a world that has vanished before our eyes
begins with Hillary’s conquest of Everest and ends with a personal
tragedy that forces the family to ‘do a bunk’ – and the shamed
author, now a wellknown national journalist, to fashion a completely
new identity for himself. |
| ISBN: 0 9519876 8 2 |
| Format: Paperback; 78 pages |
| Price: £5.99 |
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Title: Trimingham’s
Brighton Author: Adam Trimingham
Most books about Brighton concentrate on the resorts risque,
ritzy side – on princes, poets and prime ministers, on peers,
queers and racketeers – but this one is engagingly different.
Award-winning journalist Adam Trimingham draws on 30 years’
experience reporting for the Argus and other local news media to
create a colourfully affectionate picture of the town that only the
locals will recognise. Climb aboard for a unique insider’s tour of
Brighton and its once-select neighbour, Hove, with fascinating
stories on every page. |
| ISBN: 0 9533493 2 2 |
| Format: Paperback; 80 pages |
| Price: £6.50 |
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Title: Hidden Lewes
Author: Marietta Van Dyck
Lewes is celebrated for the beauty of its setting and the
remarkable variety of its historic buildings, but Marietta Van
Dyck’s vivid pen and ink drawings reveal fascinating details which
even the town’s inhabitants rarely notice. This first published
collection of her work is a delightful and unusual introduction to
‘the capital of Sussex’. A map at the back of the book plots a
route through the town’s twisting streets and twittens to take in
a wealth of striking, curious and sometimes amusing features. A
unique spotter’s guide. |
| ISBN: 0 9519876 9 0 |
| Format: Paperback; 44 pages |
| Price: £4.99 |
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Title: Sussex Love
Stories Author: Jill Parkin
A collection of true tales of love and loss, involving the famous
(including the notorious ‘Prinnie’) and the unknown. |
| ISBN: 0 9519876 4 X |
| Format: Paperback; 96 pages |
| Price: £5.00 |
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Title: LUCKY SUSSEX
Author: John Behague
A wealth of ‘lucky lore’, including the uncovering of a lost
archive of lucky stones in the attic of a Brighton museum. |
| ISBN: 0 9519876 5 8 |
| Format: Paperback; 96 pages |
| Price: £6.50 |
