• Source: David Arscott
    • David Arscott is an author, local historian and publisher from Sussex.
      He has written more than 40 books about Sussex, as well as several volumes of the Salariya Book Company's Very Peculiar History series and a number of works of fiction. His 1984 novel The Frozen City has been translated into Japanese. His first venture into political satire, Lady Thatcher's Wink, was published in 2016. As an author, his books are largely held in libraries worldwide. As an author, he has been collected by libraries worldwide.
      Arscott worked as a journalist from 1959, first with the Investors Chronicle and the Evening Standard in London and then for the English language paper The Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela. Returning to England, he reported for the Dorset Evening Echo. After taking an English degree at Hertford College, Oxford, he joined BBC Radio Brighton as a news producer, switching to general programme production and presentation shortly before the station expanded to become BBC Radio Sussex.
      His publishing company, Pomegranate Press, founded in 1992, offered a self-publishing service to other authors. It initially specialised in books with a Sussex theme but later expanded to include the Pomegranate Practicals nutshell guides, fiction and a range of non-fiction titles.
      He is also involved in media training with Curtin and Co, working with colleagues in the UK and abroad to coach individuals and groups in improving their skills in front of the microphone and the camera.
      David Arscott lives in Lewes, UK.


      Bibliography




      = Sussex books

      =
      Hidden Sussex (with Warden Swinfen) (BBC Radio Sussex) 1984
      People of Hidden Sussex (with Warden Swinfen)(BBC Radio Sussex) 1985
      Hidden Sussex Day by Day (with Warden Swinfen) (BBC Radio Sussex) 1987
      Hidden Sussex The Towns (with Warden Swinfen) (BBC Radio Sussex) 1990
      Explore Sussex (Countryside Books) 1986
      The Sussex Story (Pomegranate Press) 1992
      Living Sussex (Pomegranate Press) 1994
      Curiosities of East Sussex (SB Publications) 1991
      Hastings and the 1066 Country (SB Publications) 1993
      Curiosities of West Sussex (SB Publications) 1993
      A Sussex Quiz Book (SB Publications) 1993
      Tales from the Parish Pump (SB Publications) 1994
      Sussex, the County in Colour (Dovecote Press) 1995
      A Second Sussex Quiz Book (SB Publications) 1995
      Dead and Buried in Sussex (SB Publications) 1997
      Sussex Privies (Countryside Books) 1998
      What the Vicar Saw (Pomegranate Press) 1999
      The Sussex Millennium Book (Pomegranate Press) 1999
      The Sussex Gardens Book (Pomegranate Press) 2000
      A Century of Brighton & Hove (Sutton Publishing) 2000
      Eastbourne Past & Present (Sutton Publishing) 2001
      Horsham Past & Present (Sutton Publishing) 2002
      Brighton in the News (Sutton Publishing) 2002
      Amberley Castle (Dovecote Press) 2002
      A Century of Eastbourne (Sutton Publishing) 2002
      Chailey Heritage (SB Publications) 2003
      East Sussex Events (Phillimore) 2003
      The Sussex Bedside Book (Dovecote Press) 2003
      Our Lewes (Sutton Publishing) 2004
      Sussex: a Colour Portrait (Countryside Books 2004
      Lewes Then & Now vol. 2 (with Bill Young) (SB Publications) 2004
      The Neat & Nippy Guide to Lewes (SB Publications) 2006
      Wunt be Druv: a salute to the Sussex dialect (Countryside Books) 2006
      A Sussex Kipling (Pomegranate Press) 2007
      A Tour Along the Sussex Coast (Snake River Press) 2008
      Brighton: a Very Peculiar History (Salariya) 2009
      The Sussex Pub Quiz Book (Pomegranate Press) 2010
      The Little Book of Sussex (History Press) 2011
      Horsham Then & Now (History Press) 2011
      Floreat Lewys: 500 Years of Lewes Old Grammar School (Pomegranate Press) 2012
      Brighton, a Very Peculiar History Quiz Book (Salariya) 2012


      = Very Peculiar Histories (Salariya)

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      The Blitz, 2009
      Rations, 2010
      The World Cup, 2010
      The Olympics, 2011
      60 Years a Queen, 2011
      Golf, 2011
      The Sixties, 2012
      Sex, 2012
      England vol. I, 2013
      Oxford, 2013
      Wine, 2015


      = Fiction

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      The Frozen City (with David Marl) (Allen & Unwin) 1984
      A Flight of Bright Birds (with David Marl) (Allen & Unwin) 1985
      Cultic Cyphers from Celtic Cyprus (7,5) (Pomegranate Press) 2002
      Maracas in Caracas: short stories from England and the Americas (Pomegranate Press) 2005
      Boyhunt (with David Marl) (Pomegranate Press) 2006
      The Eye and the Blade Trilogy (with David Marl) (The Frozen City, A Flight of Bright Birds, Shadows in Crimson Colours) (Pomegranate Press) 2009
      Lady Thatcher’s Wink (Pomegranate Press) 2016


      = Other

      =
      Agelines: change, challenge and choice in an ageing society (BBC Radio Sussex) 1987
      The Upstart Gardener (Lindel Organisation) 1988
      The Stream Garden (with Archie Skinner) (Ward Lock) 1996
      Good English: how to speak it and to write it (Pomegranate Press) 1997
      Headline: a beginner’s guide to mastering the media (Pomegranate Press) 1998
      Good Essays: how to plan them and to write them (with Ann Varley) (Pomegranate Press) 1999
      Self Publish: how to create and market your own book (Pomegranate Press) 2004)
      A Little Book of Arscotts (Pomegranate Press) 2012
      Who’s Afraid of Spelling? (Salariya) 2014
      Who’s Afraid of Clear English? (Salariya) 2014


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