Among the books appearing in our latest newsletter:

The Sussex Pub Quiz Book
Here’s the ultimate test of your knowledge – ideal not only for pub quizzes, but for family gatherings and individual brain-teasing, too. David Arscott’s latest book contains a hundred ten-question miscellanies, each of them encompassing a range of subject matter, with a geographical spread from east to west and a mixture of the historical with the contemporary.

Bizarre Brighton
Including all of a hundred illustrations, Chris Horlock’s new offering features a striking collection of offbeat stories and anecdotes from the city’s colourful and often eccentric past. The stories range from the deadly serious to the hilarious, the scarcely believable to the horribly grotesque.

Brighton: A Very Peculiar History
Another take on Brighton’s history, David Arscott’s pocket hardback is aimed at everyone ‘from 8 to 80’, with a bright and breezy format which includes cartoon-like illustrations, ‘fancy that’-type boxes and a pretty pull-out of the Royal Pavilion.

Portrait of the Sussex Weald
The beautiful books by photographer Iain McGowan have become a feature of our newsletters. This one, subtitled ‘A woodland legacy’, contains more than 200 superb colour pictures, featuring not only the trees, but ancient towns and villages, secluded manor houses and archaeological remains.

East Grinstead Through a Lens
Here are 180 previously unpublished images from the collection held at East Grinstead Museum and taken by half a dozen professional photographers over the years. ‘Without the efforts of these men,’ the publishers say, ‘the pictorial record of the locality in past decades would be impoverished indeed.’