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, until recently 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 South Chailey, UK.
Sussex books
Hidden Sussex 1984 People of Hidden Sussex 1985 Hidden Sussex Day by Day 1987 Hidden Sussex The Towns 1990 Explore Sussex 1986 The Sussex Story 1992 Living Sussex 1994 Curiosities of East Sussex 1991 Hastings and the 1066 Country 1993 Curiosities of West Sussex 1993 A Sussex Quiz Book 1993 Tales from the Parish Pump 1994 Sussex, the County in Colour 1995 A Second Sussex Quiz Book 1995 Dead and Buried in Sussex 1997 Sussex Privies 1998 What the Vicar Saw 1999 The Sussex Millennium Book 1999 The Sussex Gardens Book 2000 A Century of Brighton & Hove 2000 Eastbourne Past & Present 2001 Horsham Past & Present 2002 Brighton in the News 2002 Amberley Castle 2002 A Century of Eastbourne 2002 Chailey Heritage 2003 East Sussex Events 2003 The Sussex Bedside Book 2003 Our Lewes 2004 Sussex: a Colour Portrait 2004 The Neat & Nippy Guide to Lewes 2006 Wunt be Druv: a salute to the Sussex dialect 2006 A Sussex Kipling 2007 A Tour Along the Sussex Coast 2008 Brighton: a Very Peculiar History 2009 The Sussex Pub Quiz Book 2010 The Little Book of Sussex 2011 Horsham Then & Now 2011 Floreat Lewys: 500 Years of Lewes Old Grammar School 2012 Brighton, a Very Peculiar History Quiz Book 2012
Very Peculiar Histories (Salariya)
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
The Frozen City 1984 A Flight of Bright Birds 1985 Cultic Cyphers from Celtic Cyprus 2002 Maracas in Caracas: short stories from England and the Americas 2005 Boyhunt 2006 The Eye and the Blade Trilogy 2009 Lady Thatcher’s Wink 2016
Other
Agelines: change, challenge and choice in an ageing society 1987 The Upstart Gardener 1988 The Stream Garden 1996 Good English: how to speak it and to write it 1997 Headline: a beginner’s guide to mastering the media 1998 Good Essays: how to plan them and to write them 1999 Self Publish: how to create and market your own book A Little Book of Arscotts 2012 Who’s Afraid of Spelling? 2014 Who’s Afraid of Clear English? 2014
