Although not strictly speaking a QueenSpark book, this wild ride across the diverse cultural terrain of live entertainment in Brighton & Hove was produced in collaboration with QueenSpark. It tells the story of one of the UK’s most cutting edge, creative producers. Over the last two and a half decades Zap Art has gone from establishing the iconic Zap nightclub, which transformed night life on the Brighton seafront to taking over the streets in most major cities and towns across the UK with large scale outdoor events. The book is a limited edition and not for sale although it can be downloaded from www.zaparchive.org. If you would like to be able to buy the coffee table version, register your vote.

Brighton & Hove is a multi-faceted city and it is possibly its trendy, cosmopolitan side most people recognise. Local residents however are familiar with a much more fascinating, diverse place. What is it really like to live here? Is it just ‘London by the sea’ as the media portrays? Or does it have its own unique identity? Hundreds of local people shared their knowledge and opinions in this guide book and many others volunteered their time to poll local people, source images, and write about why they love this city (warts and all).

This evocative collection of photographs shows Brighton during the WWII. Kindly reproduced here under licence from The Argus and The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove, most of these images haven’t been seen by the public for many years. From soldiers marching past the Savoy cinema in East Street to a St Paul’s Street party celebrating VE day, these photographs offer a fascinating glimpse of the city’s not too distant past.

This journal was produced by the Letter in the Attic project. It contains quotes and pictures from letters and diaries related to Brighton and Hove. These were collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and range from the letters of a Georgian windmill owner in 1832 to the diary of a Brighton musician in 2004.

Back Row Brighton transports us back to the heyday of cinema-going in the company of those who were there. Alongside evocative archive photographs, names such as the Astoria, the Granada, the Continentale and the Regency are recalled in touching and humorous stories of romance, excitement, grandeur and, occasionally, fleas. Some of these recollections are drawn from QueenSpark's rich archive, others are the recorded reminiscenses of elders of the city asked to recall cinema-going in Brighton & Hove in the 1930s and 1960s.

This is the same size as our 2008 and 2009 calendars - so the same large archive photographs of the cinemas - but the 'box-per-day' calendar format has been replaced by a 'line-per-day'. The space saved has been used for extracts from Tim Carder's Encylopedia of Brighton describing the cinemas featured and colour photographs of the site today. Also included are snippets from past QueenSpark Books recalling memories of cinema-going in Brighton & Hove.