NewsletterSUSSEX BOOK CLUB 32 Founded by David Arscott Autumn/Winter 2013
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS The long-awaited new book from the master story-teller
HAVE I GOTAlex A I. STORY Askaroff FOR YOU Country Books paperback 230 x 150mm 294pages £14.99 56 black and white photos We all love stories, and in Alex Askaroff‘s eighth book he continues with his fascinating travels around the South East of England, collecting more hilarious and enchanting tales as he goes. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, but all will have you captivated. Once again Alex brings his unique magic to the page and captures England, its history and its people, as only he can. Includes 10 poems from the master’s pen.
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irstly, an apology to all members who experienced delivery of books thay have ordered. I rely on the information supplied by publishers, who sometimes change publication dates and omit to inform the club. This Ftime we had difficulties with Dynasty Press, Amberley Publishing and History Press. Amberley have finally published Sussex Through Time by Douglas d’Enno! I would appreciate if members would inform me of any Sussex books they see reviewed in their local newspaper – some still slip through the net! Notification of two new books arrived too late for the printed version of the Spring/Summer Newsletter 31. They are on the facing page. My apologies to Helen Pearce and Diana Crook. st The Book Club outing to Rottingdean on 31 August was a great success – for those who made it. A few members were missing, no doubt exacerbated by the problem of parking their cars. In addition to the usual influx of visitors, there were two weddings at the parish church. My thanks to Mr Rob Upward for leading our little group on a brief history tour of the village – before rushing off to support Brighton playing Millwall. I hope his team won! Alex Askaroff‘s new book is worth the price, for Nina’s Naples’ pizza receipe alone (just how I remember them in Italy.) New books from Diana Pé, Harry Gaston, Brigid Chapman, Antony Edmonds, Anthony Beeson, Anne Parfitt- King, Philip Pavey, Queenspark Books, Cecil Rice & Zöe Cooper, Phil Hewitt, David J Boyne, Michael and Elaine Short, Brian Talbot, Cheryl R Lutring and Kate Elphick & Nigel Denison. David Arscott has now retired from self-publishing and I would be pleased to help anyone with a book project in mind. With improvements in technology, you no longer have to print hundreds of books, and a bespoke family history is an ideal gift for relations.
THE NEWSLETTER now costs the club £1.20 each to send. If you have access to the internet you can elect for the A4 colour magazine. This is my fourth newsletter, and from Spring/Summer 2014, I shall start to drop members off the list who have not bought any books in two years. Please buy a book, or let me know if you want to continue with your membership. Books are still available from the last three newsletters, and see the website for more. www.sussexbooks.co.uk.
The 2014 SUSSEX BOOK CLUB DESK DIARY is now available to members and is not sold in shops. £7.00, or three or more diaries at £6.00 each. See back page for more details.
I should like to take this opportunity to wish all members and their families a happy Christmas and a healthy New Year. Happy reading, Dick Richardson
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HAMMER AND FURNACE PONDS Helen Pearce Pomegranate Press paperback 210 x 148mm 96 pages 16 colour photographs £8.99
They beautify the woodlands of the Sussex and Kent High Weald, but they were created to power what has been described as the country's first industrial revolution. Helen Pearce's walker-friendly guide to the rich crop of surviving hammer and furnace ponds in the area traces the history of iron exploitation from pre-Roman times, but concentrates on the 16th and 17th centuries when the Weald throbbed to the sound of trip hammers. Her attractively illustrated guide includes a complete gazetteer of surviving ponds, with map references and access details, and a list of museums with iron industry displays.
A LEWES DIARY 1916-1944 by Mrs Henry Dudeney edited by Diana Crook Paperback 210 x 148mm £9.99
Originally published in 1998 A Lewes Diary has become popular both in Lewes and further afield, as it has a universal rather than just a local appeal. A once famous novelist, Mrs Dudeneyʼs acid comments led to her diaries being kept closed for nearly 40 years. She vividly describes her tragi-comic marriage to the celebrated mathematician Henry Dudeney, her career, her lover and two world wars, as well as her forays into High Society through her friendship with the millionaire politician Sir Philip Sassoon.
The passage of time has allowed this new edition to give previously withheld information on Mrs Dudeneyʼs lover, a Sussex artist, as well as intriguing gossip concerning a clergyman and an amateur actress. www.sussexbooks.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01629 640670 4 POMEGRANATEPRESS
Books fromPomegranatePress
HAMMER AND FURNACE PONDS Helen Pearce £8.99 Explore the relics of the Wealden iron industry in Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
MYSTERIES OF ST JAMES’S STREET AND ITS ENVIRONS HISTORYIN SUSSEX Edwin P. Miller; £12.50 Phil Pavey; £5.99 A bumper book of 300 pages, and Leylines, the Long subtitled ‘A walk through its history Man of Wilmington, from1800 to 1900’, this is the first early Christianity, ever record of the commercial and King Canute and his cultural life of this busy Brighton supposed link with thoroughfare. Bosham– the author revisits a host of local conundrums and pronounces his verdicts.
ASUSSEX KIPLING David Arscott £8.50 Poems, short stories, letters and extracts from his memoir Something of Myself THE SUSSEX STORY create a vivid David Arscott; £9.99 portrait of the county History in a nutshell and ideal for the as seen through the eyes of this newcomer seeking a grasp on what peerless author who lived for many has made Sussex the county it is years at Bateman’s at Burwash. today. Lavishly illustrated, with a Copies signed if requested. gazetteer of sites to visit.
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The Ladies of Millerʼs 44 pages £7.50 An amusing account of these eccentric and aristocratic sisters who, with their Bloomsbury friends, set up an art centre in Lewes during WW2 and afterwards revitalised the craft of lithography for British artists.
Ragged Lands – Viscountess Wolseleyʼs College for Lady Gardeners, Glynde 67 pages £7.50 Frances Wolseley, daughter of the famous soldier, opened her pioneering college in 1906. This entertaining account follows the progress of the college with its wayward students and discusses her eventual disinheritance by her parents. A Box of Toys; An Anthology of Lewes Writings 124 pages £7.50 An unusual celebration of fact and fiction, including Daisy Ashford, Jane Austen, William Cobbett, John Evelyn, Eve Garnett, Gideon Mantell, Tom Paine, Thomas Turner and Virginia Woolf.
Defying the Demon, Smallpox in Sussex 135 pages £9.99 The dramatic story of the attempts to cope with and eventually eradicate this terri- fying disease making poignant use of personal accounts. The 1950s Brighton outbreak is covered, as well as the fear that the virus could be used as a weapon of mass destruction.
Treasure Chest: A Seaford Anthology 136 pages £9.99 Attractively illustrated in colour, this varied anthology explores the rich history of Seaford as a former Cinque Port and Rotten Borough. It stretches from the theft of St Lewinnaʼs bones in 1058 to the present day, with particular emphasis on the townʼs maritime heritage.
A Lewes Diary 300 pages £9.99 See page 3 for a full notice of this book. www.sussexbooks.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01629 640670 6 NEW BOOK – SUSSEX WRITERS 7
When matron ruled with an iron hand… LOST HOSPITALS OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE by Harry Gaston Paperback 297 x 210mm £12.00 When Britian celebrated the birth of the National Health Service in 1948, there were eleven hospitals in Brighton and Hove. Today only four of them remain. What happened to the seven missing hospitals? Should we mourn their loss? Thanks to Harry Gaston’s research and the memories of people who worked in or were treated in them, it’s possible to build up a picture of the seven hospitals – Bevendean, Foredown, Hove General, Lady Chichester, New Sussex Hospital for Women, Sussex Maternity and Sussex Throat and Ear. Little now remains of these hospitals. Many of the buildings have been demolished. Some now house flats and apartments, a couple serve other health purposes, although none, like some of those in London, are now the sites of super-markets or even prisons.
Foreword by Adam Trimmingham ‘The Sage of Sussex’
Fully illustrated with black and white photographs
Harry Gaston Lost Hospitals of Brighton and Hove is his sixth published history of Sussex hospitals. Prior to that he was founder editor of the national award winning house journal of Brighton and later Mid Sussex, Bulletin, for 40 years until 2007. Following publication of a novel in 1964, he was invited to lead a further education class in writing for publication. He taught at Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne and Southwick, many of his students breaking into print for the first time. Following early retirement from the NHS on health grounds, he was appointed as lecturer in print journalism at Brighton College of Technology.Among his students’ many successes were the awards of first prize for their student news-paper nationally and later in the Meridian region. Two gained sen- ior editorial positions at the Argus and Shoreham Herald with others also following careers in local newspapers and national magazines. Harry is a trustee of the Friends of Brighton and Hove hospitals and all his recent hospital histories have been sold in support of the charity.
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For members who might stray over the border for a holiday… Sussex author, Diana Pé, has two new walk books on churches.
DORSET CHURCH WALKS Diana Pé Paperback £7.95 Reliable knowledge and information: Ideal family walks: Detailed instructions and accurate maps by Brian Panton: Varied scenery: soak up some culture.
CORNWALL WALKS TO CHURCHES Diana Pé Paperback £6.95 Explore the coast and villages of Cornwall’s Celtic past and visit her churches, dedicated to saints you may have never heard of! Petroc, Eval, Kew, Just, Issey, Merryn, Columb – Major and Minor, Theath, Breward, Mellion, Mabyn, Agnes, etc.
Walking to Sussex and Hampshire Churches with Diana Pé
Four walking guides to lead you from church to church throughout Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with detailed maps and photo- graphs of other buildings along the way.
West Sussex Church Walks £6.95 Mid Sussex Church Walks £6.95 East Sussex Church Walks £6.95 Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Church Walks £7.95
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New light on Worthing JANE AUSTEN’S WORTHING THE REAL SANDITON Antony Edmonds Amberley Publishing hardback 235 x 165mm 128 pages 50 illustrations £16.99 During her stay in Worthing in late 1805 Jane Austen became friends wth Edward Ogle, who was the driving force behind the chaotic little town’s transformation into a well-ordered seaside resort. Then in 1817, the year of her death, Jane Austen used Worthing as the background for her first unfinished novel, Sanditon, one of whose main characters was based on Ogle.
This book gives a detailed account of the town she kn ew in 1805, and explores in full the close links between Sanditon and early Worthing.
The author explains how Worthing changed and developed during the first quarter of the 19th century. We meet its most paranoid resident, the violent reformed criminal John Mackoull, and visitors, Lod Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Horace Walpole and Colonel Berkeley.
Preston, Withdean and Patcham NORTH BRIGHTON THROUGH TIME Anthony Beeson Amberley Publishing paperback 235 x 165mm 96 pages 180 illustrations £14.99 ‘Preston, once a village with an idependent life, is now Brighton’, wrote Edward Verrall Lucas of the main subject of this volume in 1904. The same thing might also be said of Patcham and its hamlet of Withdean. Their modern develop- ment followed the 1854 removal of the Preston turnpike.
This book is arranged geographically as a series of five textual peregrinations through Preston, Withdean, Surrenden and Patcham. One starts from the Preston viaduct while oth- ers commence from Preston Park Avenue, Preston Circus, Preston Drove and Preston Park’s Rose Garden.
Many of the photographs have never been published before.
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Man’s inhumanity towards man… SUSSEX SAINTS & MARTYRS Philip Pavey Country Books paperback 234 x 156mm 66 pages illustrated £6.99
In contrast to the pre-Reformation saints, whose acts furthered civilisation and humanity as well as the Christian faith, the heroism of these sixteenth century lives has been tempered by the barbarity inflicted and endured – between people who were all Christians. How could our ancestors be so incredibly cruel; would the martyrs on each side, heroic though they were, have approved of the same treatment given to their counterparts?
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A forgetten talent – but she was a woman! AMY SAWYER OF DITCHLING ARTIST, ECCENTRIC AND LADY OF LETTERS Anne Parfitt-King Country Books paperback 245 x 170mm 186 pages £15.00 36 colour and 65 black and white illustrations Amy Sawyer was a prolific and unusual Victorian artist, with an interest in folk tales, witches and faeries. She exhibited at the Royal Academy many times and at many other galleries. Today, she is an almost forgotten artist, but her Sussex Village Plays, written while living in the small village of Ditchling, are still remembered by the older residents. She is also recorded in the histories of her friends; Eric Gill, Edward Johnston, the Sinden family and Joanna and Hillary Bourne who founded Ditchling Museum. In her last ten years, in the letters to her sister in Australia, she describes with wit and asperity life in the village.
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My stories build slowly. They are a labour of love. I learnt a lot from my first book, Patches of Heaven, and I now take a huge amount of trouble to try and make each page right. Firstly I make notes, taking down the story from my customer. I then type out a rough copy and research any discrepancies. I often phone or visit my customer again and again until I get everything just right. I then read the story aloud, correcting as I go, playing with the words like a jugglers plays with his clubs or balls, getting each sentence just right. Yana then works through the story. I do the alterations, and then my beautiful daughter-in-law, Corrinne, corrects more grammar. She is the best at it, so I leave her until last. By now each story flows and when they are all done and dusted, I send them all to my publisher. They carry out the final edits and send me the book back for the last polish. If my book was a car it would have had at least 20 washes, a dozen polishes and end- less waxes.
Tales from this master storyteller. Humorous encounters with Sussex characters, from war veterans and farmers to hop-pickers and mill-workers the author has met whilst repairing sewing machines.
RANDOM THREADS 1: PATCHES OF HEAVEN Paperback 224 pages black-and-white photographs £9.99 RANDOM THREADS 2: SKYLARK COUNTRY Paperback 176 pages black-and-white photographs £9.99 RANDOM THREADS 3: HIGH STREETS &HEDGEROWS Paperback 224pp black-and-white photographs £9.99
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NORMAN: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME Paperback 216 pages black-and-white photographs £12.99 Like many people Norman had lived a life which he thought of as ordinary. He, like many of us, is almost invisible, a single leaf on a tree in our human forest.
For most of the 20th Century Norman had been involved in and witnessed a brave new world, a world in which we live today.
Here is a mini biography of a modest man who was born into a rural time hardly changed for centuries. Where a team of farmers and animals would spend back-breaking days working a field, to a time when one man in an air-conditioned cosy tractor, with music playing on his iPod, guided by satellites in space could do the same work in a few hours.
Norman’s journey has spanned the most interesting century that this planet may ever have, and, through war and peace, provides us with a unique portrait of one man’s remarkable life.
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Not all Sussex – but beautiful watercolours CECIL RICE: THE COLOUR OF LIGHT Text by Zöe Cooper Halsgrove hardback 238 x 258mm 144 pages £39.99 over 120 colour illustrations PUBLICATION NOVEMBER 2013
This superb, beautifully-presented book is a celebration of this artist’s passion for light, colour and atmosphere. His handling of sunlight, which seems to radiate from the page, is a testament to his vision and skill. But beyond the thrall of Venice, among his most recent paintings are tantalising glimpses of Indian and Mughal subjects, seascapes, dramatic nocturnes and Thames views. Cecil has a love of travel that shows no signs of abating. Florence, Rome, Tuscany, Tunisia, Egypt and Spain have all provided exciting subjects for him, from the warm allure of Southern Europe to North Africa and India. In contrast, the cooler earth-golds and blues of the north are explored, from the sea at Brighton, along the canals of Amsterdam and the Thames in London and in spectacular icy nocturnes.
SB PUBLICATIONS Neat & Nippy Guide to Brighton’s History 101 Medieval Churches of West Sussex £9.95 C Horlock £4.99 Aspects of Alfriston P Berry & L Tyrrell £7.50 Neat & Nippy Guide to Lewes D Arscott £4.99 Bishopstone and Lost Village of Tide Mills Neolithic Villages Near Worthing A Vincent £4.99 D Lyndhurst £4.50 On Foot on East Sussex Downs B Perkins £6.99 Birdwatching at RSPB Pulborough On Foot on West Sussex Downs B Perkins £6.99 Brooks D Golds £9.99 Pub & Teashop Drives in Sussex R Matthews £7.95 Bizarre Brighton C Horlock £7.99 Rodmell — A Downland Village J Moore £4.50 Bloomsbury Trail in Sussex J Moore £5.99 Seaford Memories P Berry £6.99 Brighton in the Sixties C Horlock £9.95 South Downs Way D Harrison £6.99 Brighton & Hove Then & Now Vol 2 Sussex Best Pub Walks J Young £7.99 C Horlock £10.50 Sussex Haunted Heritage D Munn £8.99 Brighton & Hove Pictorial Guide A Thomas £7.99 Sussex Staion Walks D Bathurst £9.99 Changing Face of Seaford P Berry £7.50 Teashop Walks in Sussex R Matthews £7.95 Classic Walks in Sussex B Perkins £6.95 Unknown Ghosts of South East A Green £7.95 Downland Heritage E Wilkinson £6.99 Untold Stories of Beachy Head S Ryan £10.99 East Sussex Coastal Railways Vol 1 Walking in West Sussex T Oldfield £6.50 P O’Callaghan £7.99 Walking the Castles of Sussex D Harrison £8.50 East Sussex Coastal Railways Vol 2 Walking the Coastline of Sussex D Bathurst £8.99 P O’Calaghan £7.99 Walking the Disused Railways of Sussex Eastdean and Friston J Surtees £16.95 and Surrey D Bathurst £9.99 Fishermen of Eastbourne T Hide £15.95 Walking the Riversides of Sussex D Bathurst £8.50 Ghost Hunter Walks in Sussex R Matthews £7.95 Walking the Sussex Border Path D Bathurst £8.99 Ghostly Tales of Brighton’s Lanes R Marks £5.99 Walking Triangulation Points of Sussex Hunsmere Way, Story of Woodingdean P Mercer £10.99 D Bathurst £8.50 Lewes on the Fifth A Thomas £5.99 Wildlife Walks Around Cuckmere Valley Lewes Souvenir Guide A Thomas £6.99 P Coulcher £7.95 Lewes Then & Now Volume 2 B Ellis £7.95 Windmills at Work in East Sussex B Chapman £3.99 Lindfield in Watercolour M Blundell £6.99 Windmills at Work in West Sussex J Moore £3.99 Lost Churches & Chapels Sussex A Vincent £5.50 Worthing Then & Now T Wales £7.50
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Hundreds of years of history in a vivid pulp style BLOODY BRITISH HISTORY: BRIGHTON David J Boyne History Press paperback 234 x 156mm 96 pages £9.99 Richly illustrated with more than 60 rare and historic mono images
Vikings, Saxons and pirates! BURNED in a BARREL OF TAR! Brighton’s historical horrors revealed: RIOTING ROCKERS, SEDITIOUS SUFFRAGETTES and TWO TERRIBLE TRUNK MURDERS! STRIKE! Barbarity at the Battle of Lewes Rd: SWEETER THAN POISON: The true story of a Brighton femme fatale! STRAFED by NAZI MACHINE-GUNNERS: The TRUE STORY of the BRIGHTON BLITZ!
DAVID J. BOYNE is currently researching for a D. Phil in Contemporary History at the University of Sussex. A Brighton resident, his recent titles include Brighton and Hove: A Pocket Miscellany.
Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll in Sussex! UTTER NONSENSE IN HASTINGS Michael & Elaine Short Circaidy Gregory Press paperback 234 x 156mm 55 pages £8.99 Illustrated by Elaine Short
Edwad Lear roving the Fire Hills talking Italian with Holman Hunt? Lewis Carroll complaining about falling into Hastings’ rock pools? What a load of nonsense! … but it’s true. These two great creators of nonsense had close connections with Hastings. Their exploits are presented with some favourites from their nonsense poems, enhanced by imaginative illustrations created especially for this book by Elaine Short. Includes: Jabberwok, The Owl and the Pussy Cat and The Dong with a Lumious Nose to the more obscure but equally lovable Uncle Arly and The Mad Gardener.
Lewis Carroll would visit his two aunts, Lucy and Henrietta Ludwidge at No.2 Wellington Square, Hastings. And as a schoolboy, Edward Lear often visited his sister at Arundel and wrote a number of humorous verses for Fanny and Eliza Drewitt who lived at Peppering House, Burpham.
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Exploring the C10 to C21 history of the east bank of the Ouse villages SOUTH HEIGHTON, DENTON & TARRING NEVILLE Brigid Chapman CGB Books paperback 210 x 148mm £4.99 These places are little-known parts of Sussex. Thousands live on the new estates in and around these villages but there are no books detailing their history. South Heighton, with which my book is principally concerned, is not even mentioned in Arthur Mee’s Sussex in the King’s England series of 1937. But Tarring Neville is… A Saxon land deal caused quite a few problems, as did the course of the Ouse in the 16th century, but it was not until the Portland Cement Works opened in 1884 quadrupling the population of the area, that things really started to happen. WW1 brought a Royal Army Observance Corps Depot and phospherous bombs, WW2, a secret underground intelligence unit – gathering centre to monitor all sea and air traffic in the Channel. With peace came potter of distinction Ursula Mommens, great grand-daughter of Charles Darwin. She was succeeded by Chris Lewes and at the Old Forge is sculptor Christian Funnell. It has also brought a lot of new houses to Denton and reduced the popuation of Tarring Neville to an all-time low of about 30…
CGB Books
EA HE ANE IN AND HEA E H GH A ND LEE HE CEN IE Today wind and weather details This Ouse Valley village are available from the radio, tv or with its 16 houses and 35 the world wide web. But inhabitants has no shops, no Lewes still has its no phone box and no pub. art gallery in the But it does have a round- sky with more towered church and 1,000 hand-crafted weath- years of recorded history. . . ervanes than any town in Booklet £4.99 Sussex. This is a guide to E LAGH LINE that gallery – snd it An anthology of poems and limericks about places includes surrounding in Sussex, most of them from the Sussex County villages. Magazines of 1927-1957. Plus a few GARDEN GRINS Booklet £4.99 Bookklet £4.99
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A unique series of 14 stories depicting Brighton & Hove BRIGHTON: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Brian Talbot creative director QueenSpark Books paperback 266 x 177mm 144 pages £15.99 colour and black and white illustrations A compelling mix of historical fact and fiction interwoven with stunning artwork.
Features the work of 26 emerging artists and writers.
Huge appeal for fans of graphic novels, especially Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot and Nelson.
The vast wealth of talent (who all live in and around Brighton) includes established comic creators such as Nye Wright, Iain Buchanan and Paul Stapleton, and rising stars such as Chris Hagan, Joe Blann, Katie Miller, Ottilie Hainsworth, Rob Simpson, and many more.
In the last newsletter, but only just published! SUSSEX THROUGH TIME Douglas d’Enno Amberley Publishing paperback 235 x 165mm 96 pages £14.99 180 sepia and colour illustrations This companion volume to Sussex Coast Through Time is unique in being the first ‘then and now’ book to portray the numerous and diverse communities of East and West Sussex through rich sepia and stunning colour images. Most of the early pictures have never previously been published and include a number of rarities that can only now be widely enjoyed.
Far from simply depicting street scenes, the focus occasionally shifts, with suitable background, to an event, a group of buildings or perhaps even simply a shop or house to illustrate local change – for better or worse – down the years. Sussex Through Time is an important addition to the literature on Sussex and forms a valuable and long-awaited comparative record of most of the settlements lying within this extensive county.
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Few towns in England have so much to offer which makes life worth living! A CHICHESTER MISCELLANY Phill Hewitt Summersdale hardback 180 x 112mm 160 pages £9.99 Forewords by Kate Mosse & the Duke of Richmond and Gordon
Home to a magnificent Norman Cathedral, Chichester was created by the Romans and developed as a thriving market town in the Middle Ages.The Georgians added an array of splendid buildings which still enhance the city today, and during recent decades Chichester has emerged as a major centre for the arts, with an enviable reputation. In this captivating compendium of fascinating facts and quirky true stories, Phil Hewitt reveals the intriguing history and the hidden delights of one of our best-loved cathedral cities.
Illustrations by Claire Plimmer.
The author is Group Arts Editor for all seven West Sussex news- papers, and has been a journalist for 20 years.
…and they’re off! LEWES RACECOURSE: A LEGACY LOST? Chryl R Lutring Phreestyle Pholios paperback 210 x 148mm 144 pages £10.00 Foreword by Lord Rathcreedon, British Horse Racing Authority The only book devoted to the history of Lewes Racecourse which spans over 200 years from the early 1700s to its closure in 1964. It still operates as a base for racehorse trainers to this day. It is more than a dissertation of races, winners and odds. It is packed with anecdotes about characters and incidents which really bring the racecourse to life.
CONTENTS: From the start; A view of the course: Racing: Of people past: Horses: The final furlong: Training facilities: Past the post: Royal plates at Lewes 1720-1764: Horses that have won more than four times at Lewes: Pratt & Co.: Sussex Ox: Not only thoroughbred racing: Pilot and jockey: Telscombe village: Some Sussex racecourses.
Fully illustrated with black and white photos, engravings and paintings.
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Sussex witchcraft, spells and counter spells THE SUPERSTITIONS AND CURIOUS BELIEFS OF OLD SUSSEX Johnnie Johnson Pomegranate Press paperback 210 x 148mm 118 pages illustrated £6.99
Here’s a fascinating world of witchcraft; of spells and counter-spells; of so-called cunning-men; of death omens; of girls conjuring the identity of their future husbands; of fishermen’s precautions against ill luck; of the fairies, always uncertain of temper; and of the Devil and all his nefarious ways.
W.H. Johnson, well known for his many books on Sussex themes, here explores the mind-set of people whose lives were coloured by a richly woven tapestry of ancient beliefs that today seem out- landishly far-fetched but once gave ordinary lives their meaning.
Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson is a Tynesider, who spent his child- hood in South Shields and his adolescence and early adult years in Hexham, Northumberland. After graduating from the University of Durham, he became a schoolmaster, working in selective and non-selective schools. For twelve years he was a comprehensive school head and for another eight, a schools inspector. Since retirement, he has devoted much of his time to writing and lecturing.
He has won writing awards and prizes from several bodies including South East Arts, Torfaen Writers and the Society of Sussex Authors. He was a finalist in the Fenner Brockway Peace Prize for Literature Competition and second in the Alpha to Omega Competition which attracted many contestants from beyond Britain. For very many years Johnnie has lived in either East or West Sussex.
Since his retirement he has written more than twenty non-fiction books ranging from true crime and superstition to local history and the supernatural. www.sussexbooks.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01629 640670 18 NEWBOOK–COUNTRYBOOKS
His family ran a butcher’s shop in Chichester… MICHAEL ELPHICK: THE GREAT PRETENDER Kate Elphick & Nigel Denison – Foreword by Neil Morrisey History Press hardback 234 x 156mm 224 pages + 16 pages illustrated £16.99 Michael Elphick was a young electrician working at the Chichester Theatre when he was discovered by Laurence Olivier, who arranged for him to join the Central School of Drama. It was here where he met Bruce Robinson, who would later cast him in one of the most popular British films of all time – Withnail and I. Elphick’s illustrious career also included major supporting roles in films such as Quadrophenia, The Elephant Man, Gorky Park and Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills. On television, there was Private Schultz and Boon, which gave his acolyte and friend, Neil Morrissey, his first starring role. However, Elphick’s private life was every bit as varied as his acting career. Racked by alcoholism and devastated by the early death of his partner, Julia, Elphick died at the age of 55. And yet, his friends and family will always remember his hugely humorous personality, and everyone he met was left with a ‘Mike Elphick story’...
COUNTRY BOOKS SAVE £6.45 AND BUY THESE TWO FOR £10.00! BLACKʼS 1861 GUIDE TO SUSSEX Incorporating 1859 Breadsʼs guide to Worthing and a description of the Millerʼs Tomb on Highdown Hill. Paperback 210 x 148mm 276 pages Engravings and folding map. £8.95 A DICTIONARY OF THE SUSSEX DIALECT by Rev WD PARISH. th Illustrated with 19 century line drawings of Sussex by Frederick L Griggs, ARA. Paperback 220 x 150mm 192 pages 70 line drawings. £7.50
THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF HORSHAM by Howard Dudley. Facsimile of one of the rarest topographical books on Sussex, first published in 1836 by a six- teen-year-old schoolboy. Illustrated. Paperback size: 190 x 125mm 112 pages. was £9.50 now £5.00 FROM SUSSEX YEOMEN TO GREENWICH WATERMEN by A W Gearing Paperback 210 x 148mm 176 pages Over 100 B&W photos. was £10.00 now £6.00 SUSSEX FOLK: THE FOLK SONG REVIVAL IN SUSSEX by Clive Bennett. Introduction by Shirley Collins. Illustrated Paperback 220 x 150mm 200 pages was £14.95 now £10.00 NOOKS & CORNERS OF OLD SUSSEX Rev P de Putron Facsimile of 1875. Engravings and text. Old buildings, artefacts, monuments, etc. Paperback 297 x 210mm 158 pages was £18.50 now £12.50 THE CHURCH GALLERY MINSTRELS OF OLD SUSSEX Rev. K. H. MacDermott Paperback 210 x 148mm 128 pages £14.50 Includes FREE CD featuring 13 traditional Sussex village carols recorded in 1983. CUSTOMS IN SUSSEX Tony Foxworthy Paperback 210 x 148mm 86 pages half-tone photos and illustrations. £7.99
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FOR CHRISTMAS? THE 2014 SUSSEX BOOK CLUB DESK DIARY Dick Richardson Country Books paperback 210 x 148mm 130 pages Illustrated £7.00 Buy three or more for £6.00 each Not available from shops, this diary is exclusive to members. CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT ONE? The diary is a week to view format and carries entries on events in the county – 18 January 1904 Knepp Castle destroyed by fire: 5 March 1964 train derailment at Itchingfield 2 killed: 24 April 1830 Brighton police force established: 6 July 1935 Cocking railway station closed: 30 September 1940 Plaza Cinema, Hastings, bombed, 14 dead…
Excerpts from the diaries of Charles Wille 1797-1878, a Lewes timber merchant. On September 25th 1822, he married Miss Morris, of Wellingham, near Lewes, by whom he had seven children, one of whom died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Wille spent their honeymoon at Eastbourne. Mr. Wille was constantly on the move, visiting his customers, a journey usually occupying several days in its accomplishment, and performed by horse and chaise, rather than on horseback. These journeys do not seem to have extended westward much beyond Brighton, northward to Tunbridge Wells, and eastward to Hastings. He seems to have quickly used the railways when they were opened, and we then find him at Northampton, Derby, Birmingham, Hull, York, Oxford, and Cambridge, journeys performed partly by coach and partly by railway. The first note we find of his using the rail- way is 1836, on October 28th:“Went to the Docks. Rode to Deptford on Greenwich Rail- way.” The family name has become extinct, the last representative dying a few years since, in Canada. There are biographies and pictures of the famous and infamous!
Henry Blacker, the Cuckfield giant: Isaac Ingall, Battle’s old man: Mrs Steere, the lady Lewes sexton: Phoebe Hessell, the female soldier: Martha Gunn, the Brighton dipper: Dr John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne’s mass murderer: Grey Owl, Archibald Stansfield Belaney: George Henry Elliott, the Chocolate Coloured Coon: Mad Jack Fuller of Brightling: Maria Fitzherbert, “wife” of King George IV: John George Haigh, the acid-bath murderer – and, of course – Charle Wille!
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