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A SUSSEX KIPLING
Rudyard Kipling's works have just come out of copyright, and here's the first comprehensive anthology of his Sussex writing for many years. It brings together all of his Sussex poetry, several of his richly flavoured short stories set in the county, a selection of his idiosyncratic letters and excerpts from his autobiography. Illustrated.
20 SUSSEX CHURCHES
BLOOMSBURY IN SUSSEX
AN ECCENTRIC TOUR OF SUSSEX
20 SUSSEX GARDENS
SUSSEX WRITERS AND ARTISTS
WHAT THE VICTORIANS DID FOR SUSSEX
These six titles are the first to be produced by a new publishing house, Snake River Press. They’re pocket-size hardbacks certain to become collectors’ items, crafted in traditional style with dust jackets and on quality paper, with specially commissioned artwork, ribbon bookmarks and ex libris stamps.
SUSSEX IN BYGONE DAYS
A facsimile edition of a book, by Nathaniel Paine Blaker, first published in 1906. Blaker was born at Selmeston and educated at Lewes and Steyning. His memoirs range from customs in the early 1830s, ox-teams, harvest suppers, tithing, old-time village music, country sports, smuggling and much more.
DEAD & BURIED IN SUSSEX
incorporating WHAT THE VICAR SAW
Two books in one -- both old favourites by David Arscott. 'Dead & Buried in Sussex' is a guide to the county's strange, striking and humorous epitaphs and memorials. ‘What the Vicar Saw' is a collection of the marginal comments made by vicars in the old births, death and marriages registers – often witty or contemptuous.
WUNT BE DRUV
David Arscott’s ‘feast of linguistic fun’ takes a fresh look at the Sussex dialect. Including a large dictionary of the old words and phrases, it also covers Sussex place-names and personal names, and there are interviews with some old-timers who still have a smattering of the old speech on their tongues.
BYGONE DAYS IN BURGESS HILL
No Sussex town has grown as rapidly as Burgess Hill in recent years, so it's good to have a reminder of earlier times. This armchair guide is packed with photographs, many of which have never been published before.
MID SUSSEX CHURCH WALKS
POCKET PUB WALKS: EAST SUSSEX
CLASSIC WALKS IN SUSSEX
As usual, we have plenty of walks books to get you out and about in the county.
WEST SUSSEX LITERARY TRAIL
A handsome guide with colour throughout, maps and line drawings. The trial starts at Horsham and finished, by stages, at Chichester. Among the writers celebrated along the way are Belloc, Shelley, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Lear and Mervyn Peake.
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE KENT & EAST SUSSEX RAILWAY
The Light Railways Act of 1896 was responsible for the final great burst of railway construction in the UK, and the Kent & East Sussex was its epitome. A comprehensive account in hardback, with many fine illustrations.
COWDRAY AND EASEBOURNE
This is the first ever book on the parish of Easebourne, which is actually larger than neighbouring Midhurst. It includes Cowdray House, the Cowdray Ruins, Cowdray Park and the King Edward VII Hospital.
41 PLACES; 41 STORIES
William Shaw, who freelances for national newspapers and has written several books of narrative non-fiction here evokes essential Brighton, with true stories picked up on street corners, tax ranks, in pubs, car parks – even public lavatories.
BRIGHTON CRIME & VICE 1800-2000
Douglas d’Enno explores the violence and depravity which have flourished in our fair city over the centuries.
A GRIM ALMANAC OF SUSSEX
A fitting companion to the above: Johnny Johnson brings us no fewer than 366 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic events – something sinister, macabre or horrifying for each day of the year.
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