A DICTIONARY OF THE SUSSEX DIALECT
by Rev WD PARISH

The dictionary was first published in 1875 by the vicar of Selmeston, the Rev WD Parish. He also recorded provincialisms in use in the county at that time. This new edition is augmented by further pieces on the Sussex dialect, traditional recipes, and a mumming play from West Wittering from the writings of EV Lucas, who died in 1938. Illustrated throughout with line drawings of Sussex views made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Frederick L Griggs, ARA.

Paperback 220 x 150mm 192 pages
70 line drawings
2001 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 68 2
Price £7.50

RUSTIC RECIPES
THE WOODBURNER COOKBOOK

More than just a recipe book, but a lifestyle change, encouraging time out from busy schedules to learn from a simpler time. This book not only contains 50 recipes, ranging from hearty soups, to rustic French, Italian and Dutch dishes, to a section on foraging; but also gives snippets of
information on each recipe, for example; how the chocolate truffle was invented, why carrots are orange? etc.
The book is intended as a rough guide, encouraging its readers to try cooking on their woodburner when they have time, but equally it can be used as a standard recipe book.
This book is a way of bringing that desire for ‘The Good Life’ into everyday living.

THE AUTHOR
After my BSc Hons in Politics and Sociology, I went on to study an MSc in Personnel Management and Business Admin at Aston University. I subsequently worked as a Marketing Manager, writing, proofreading and editing articles and marketing materials. I then re-trained as a proofreader at King’s College London and set up my own proofreading business.
After my fourth child, I re-trained again as a swimming teacher and now run my own swim school. In my spare time I have written this book, inspired by my experience of cooking without power in our kitchen. I live in Sussex with my husband and four children.

Paperback 235 X 156 70 pages
7 colour photos and 7 line illustrations
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-60-4
Price £7.99

WRITTEN BY READERS
LETTERS TO THE SUSSEX COUNTY MAGAZINE 1928-1932
Dick Richardson

The Sussex County Magazine was founded by Arthur Beckett in 1927 and ceased publication in 1956. The best, and probably the first county magazine in the country, it carried little, if any advertising, which led to its ultimate downfall. The Magazine provides a veritable treasure trove of articles on the county. In this slim volume I have selected and edited readers‘ letters from 1928-1932. This is a book for dipping into, and there should be something for everyone with a love of Sussex.
Contents include: Longevity: Windmills: Budgen’s map of Sussex: Old Sussex toasts: A Guestling carter’s adventure: Ebernoe Horn Fair: Latten bells: The bag of gold: Breaking up a sub-marine: Sussex place-names: Slindon House and Sellinger’s Round: An East Grinstead playbill 1758: Isaac Ingall – Battle’s old man: A dolmen goddess in Sussex: Eastbourne in 1826: Round-frock, smock or Banyan?: Coal in Sussex?: Harold’s bodyguard at Hastings: Two meetings with fairies: A John Fuller madallion: The Jevington “Argin”: Old Zeb: John Dudeney’s burial place: The derivation of “Lydes”: Old industries at East Hoathly: Gundrada de Warrenne: Friday in place-names: The House of Howard: The Roman road – Chichester to Portslade: Sussex windmills: The mummers’ play: A bark mill: An old-fashioned remedy: Nan Kemp’s grave: Starvemouse Plain: The Clatterdown legend of Herstmonceux Castle: The Henfield doll: Dog-drawn fish carts: The village pound:Recipes for apple butter: Curious Sussex customs: Hog-asses: Sussex epitaphs: Henfield’s inhabitants 1840: Gooch’ strong beer: Anne Page of Hastings: Bethesda Chapel, Lewes: St Paul’s Cathedral gates and railings: The lock-up, Slindon: A Ditchling road cross: Executions at Horsham: A present from Bexhill to Horace Walpole: Pallinghma Lock, near Pulborough: Curious Christian names: Potato wine: The White Horse, Bodle Street: A West Chiltington legend: Who was Barney?: A Sussex puritan jury: Brede pottery: Hogs puddings: A woman grave digger: The Cowfold brass: Firing the anvil: Jack Upperton’s gibbet: Wife-selling in Sussex: The old forge, Brighton: How Seaford made a breakwater: An old Sussex kinife-grinder: The howling boys: The treadmill, House of Correction, Brighton: A smuggler’s account book: Sidlesham church chest: Charles Lee, “King of the Gipsies”, Chailey Mill: etc.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 76 pages
49 half-tone photos and illustrations
Country Books
ISBN 978 1 906789 82 4
Price £7.50