Local Interest

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.

In this book, which includes many illustrations not previously published, local historian Alan Green explores not only the history and archetecture of the Five Little Churches, but also the lives of their people and parishes. This book is not just church history - it is a portrait of everyday life in Chichester over thre and a half centuries.

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.