BOOKS BY ALEX ASKAROFF, PATCHES OF HEAVEN, SKYLARK COUNTRY, HIGH STREETS & HEDGEROWS

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Books
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Alex Askaroff

You may like to read some of my stories before you buy one of my books. They are available on most sites like Amazon and Play.com but you can also get a personal copy directly from me.

If you would like a copy, personally signed and delivered to your door, anywhere in the world, just mail me: alexsussex@aol.com. I have a seven day delivery to America and Canada, two day in the U.K.

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The Millennium Special
collectors calendar

Hello Alex,

The Calendar has arrived in perfect condition. It really is a work of art to be enjoyed for all time. The photography is superb. It really is a treasure.

Bless you in your work. Sharing your knowledge and your own fabulous collection with those of us who are interested in cherished items from Past Times.

Roisin. Ireland

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Patches of Heaven

BKII

Skylark Country

BKIII
High Streets & Hedgerows

Collectors Calendar

The millennium Special

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The very special Millennium Calendar was made to celebrate the Millennium year. Packed with the most beautiful and rare sewing machines, with descriptions and many stories at the back. A real collectors item. Just 750 printed worldwide all individually numbered.

Only a handful left

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£9.99 $18

Sample stories

£9.99 $18

Sample stories

£9.99 $18

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ISBN:

0-9539410-4-3

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ISBN:

0-9539410-2-7

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ISBN:

0-9539410-3-5

wonderful collection of stories that I have put together on my travels around the South East corner of England. See the review page.

second edition

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The continuing story of Alex and his travels. The larger book, containing even more pictures and stories.

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The last in the Random Threads Trilogy, more stories and laughs. A bigger book crammed with the anecdotes, history and people of Sussex.

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Out at last! After a four-year wait Sussex Born and Bred, Tales from the Coast is finally available click on the picture for more information

By Christina Paige (Tucson, AZ)

This review is for: Sussex Born and Bred: Tales from the Coast (Paperback)

Sitting down with Sussex Born and Bred is like spending a couple of hours at a really good pub when the local storyteller has stopped by for a pint of the local best; drink in hand, he begins to regale listeners with tales of adventures and misadventures, describing with good humor and a large measure of affection his interactions the townspeople all around. This is one of the most charming, delightful, endearing, and funny collection of anecdotes it has ever been my pleasure to read. Askaroff is an insatiable collector of stories, and as a traveling repairman, the kind who actually makes house-calls, he has been invited into more households than the pope, and he's probably done more practical good.

Alex Askaroff gave up a safe, lucrative career to do what he loved: fixing the sewing machines still in use along the south coast of England, tending to ailing Singers, Husqvarna, Bradbury treadles, even industrial machines used by farmers for sewing leather. Many of these sewing machines are irreplaceable antiques that have been used for decades by the same family - often by the same "old dears" - Askaroff's affectionate term for some of his regular clients. With self-deprecating humor, he recounts how he has sometimes played the inadvertent fool, sometimes the hero of the moment, and how the life stories of these men and women are endlessly surprising.

If you loved the books by Gerald Durrell, from My Family and Other Animals through Fillets of Plaice, here you can discover a kindred spirit, one whose passion is for, not animals, but machines, and the people who use them with love and skill. Descriptions of locales, photographs, even original poetry grace these stories, and most of them are ideally suited to share with children and other family members.

Anything you need just ask: alexsussex@aol.com

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