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  • 1891 August Weather

    August, 1891 : A Remarkably Wet Month, With Very Little Sunshine.

    When is a book not a book? When it’s a manuscript! The book fairs have started again and at the very first one I bought a wonderful leather-bound notebook with a record for the weather on every single day between…

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  • Brighton Book Fair In The News

    Brighton Book Fair in The News – Antiques Trade Gazette

    This is just a short post to let you know that the PBFA Brighton Book Fair is in the news! The image shows the full page article from the May 15th Antiques Trade Gazette. The ATG is essential reading for…

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  • PBFA Book Fair

    Follow the PBFA Brighton Book Fair on Facebook!

    I have set up a facebook group for the PBFA Brighton Book Fair. I’ll be posting all sorts of interesting material on the group page as well as the latest news and details about the fair. There has not been…

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  • Brighton In Books

    A Book Fair Comes To Brighton – October 30th, 2021

    Here is some good news! I am very pleased to announce that on Saturday October 30th there will be a PBFA Book Fair in Brighton at the Racecourse. A book fair is like a huge second-hand bookshop coming to town…

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  • Shoreham Bungalow Town

    Shoreham on Sea: Lights! Camera! Glamour!

    The story of Shoreham’s bohemian seaside village is well known but still remarkable. In the 1880s the shingle spit between the River Adur and the sea was used by fishermen, some working from old railway carriages bought from Brighton. One…

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  • Entitled to Love, or Egyptian Love.

    8th February 2017

    ‘Happily Ever After’… ‘The Devil Shed Tears’… ‘Love in Morocco’… she could conjure up a good title, could Countess Helene Magriska. Including her own, as it happens. Know as Enid Brockies to her friends, the pseudonymous scribe made East meets…

  • East Meets West; or, The Lady in the Veil

    7th February 2017

    In the first half of the twentieth century ‘East Meets West’ was a familiar theme in popular fiction. Written mainly by white women, a great deal of it was set in India and centred on the thrills ‘n’ spills of…

  • Libavius on Alchemy; or, Tome For Chemistry

    6th February 2017

    Book Experts call this a ‘properly old’ book. It dates from 1615 and is about one of the most desirable of all subjects: alchemy. The hand-written spine reads ‘Libavii Opus Chimic To. 1’ This tells us that the author was…

  • Love, The Book: The Ladies’ Oracle of Destiny

    5th February 2017

    ‘Shall I soon be courted?’ is the first question in this little book and it’s aimed squarely at women as the gilt illustration on the front cover shows. That’s the purported author, Cornelius Agrippa, divining the future with symbols and…

  • Love, The Books: Ovid’s Art Of Love

    4th February 2017

    Do you know your “Ars Amatoria?’ Written by Ovid 2000 years ago, ‘The Art of Love’ still contains much sensible advice today, although frankly the bit I looked at was a stiff read. Anyway, it’s apparently very important to remember your wife’s…

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