Local Interest

A generation of ordinary young men and women were thrust into the most extraordinary of situations when the Second World War was declared.As this important period passes from living memory into history, this is likely to be the last time that these personal tales are told, tales which should never be forgotten.

How the poppy came to be a symbol of remembrance after the First World War

The English see more ghosts than any other nation. comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.

The little book of Sussex

A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.

New paperback edition - A delightful depiction of a year in the life of the South Downs of Sussex. Will appeal to anyone with a love of the Downs and the natural world.