PROFILE OF SMH BOOKS

Sandra Saer founded the company in 1987 with publication of her own book: COLDWALTHAM: A Story of Three Hamlets.

(Sandra is looking to buy back copies of her Coldwaltham book - rather like J R Hartley/'Fly Fishing' in the Yellow Pages ad! Does anyone have one to sell?)

She was trained as a journalist, and worked as editor, and book publicist and marketer, on her own behalf and for the BBC. Setting up and running SMH BOOKS was the culmination of all her professional experience.

SMH now operates from 14 Caen Stone Court, Queen Street. ARUNDEL, BN18 9FE, to which all postal enquiries should be directed. (See our Home Page for other contact details)

SMH’s list has been dedicated to Sussex memoirs, anthologies of prose and poetry, and regional and local books. Details are to be found elsewhere on this website.

AN EXALTATION OF SKYLARKS (2,300 years of Skylark prose and poetry compiled by Stewart Beer, with a Preface by Richard Mabey), is a triple-award-winner.

THE RHYTHM OF THE TIDE: Tales through the ages of Chichester Harbour, by Jeremy Thomas, is the hardback, first edition of this fascinating book, the colour illustrations by Iain McGowan, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. It has received worldwide acclaim from media and readers alike - not just those in the sailing fraternity!

Sandra's children's book, THE GIANT AND THE MOUSE, written for her own four when aged 4-8, has been read to primary-school children in many parts of the country. It is the recipient of a prestigious award from the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust.

COUNTRY PEOPLE: An Endangered Species, This anthology was compiled by Tony Hodgson for fifteen years, the last six of which he and Sandra worked on together - but every year of work was worth it! First published in 2001 in hardcover, When it went out of print, MAKING HISTORY FOR SMH BOOKS! - it was published in 2005 in softcover�In 2009, the second impression of the hardback and the third, of the hardback, were printed. Just a few of these new, update editions, now remain. BUY NOW, if you want one! We are not reprinting them.

Two titles (meant to be the last!), published on 27 October 2006, were EACH DAY’S A DIAMOND (now out of print): Facets of Life through Poetry - a lovely miscellany by Robert Melliard, and MORE FROM PEAR TREE COTTAGE, Sandra’s second book of prose and poetry, the writing of which,she says, owes much to her cottage, in whose tranquillity her work was mainly done, over twenty- eight years.