David Arscott is an author, local historian and publisher from

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. He has written more than 40 books about

, as well as several volumes of the

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'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 ''

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'' 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

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, 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 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)

''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 ''The Frozen City'' is a novel by David Arscott and David J. Marl published in 1984. Plot summary ''The Frozen City'' is a novel in which a young man lives in a city which is under the leadership of a cruel regime. Reception Dave Langford reviewe ...

'' (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

References

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