Colin Spencer is an English writer and artist who has produced a prolific body of work in a wide variety of mediums since his first published short stories and drawings appeared in The London Magazine and Encounter

Encounter (magazine)

Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neoconservative author Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991...

when he was 22. His work includes novels, short stories, non-fiction (including histories of food and of homosexuality), cookery books, stage and television plays, paintings and drawings, book and magazine illustrations. He has written and presented a television documentary on vandalism, appeared in numerous radio and television programmes and lectured on food history, literature and social issues. For fourteen years he wrote a regular food column for The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

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BIOGRAPHY

Colin Spencer was born in 1933 in Thornton Heath

Thornton Heath

Thornton Heath is a district of south London, England, in the London Borough of Croydon. It is situated south-southeast of Charing Cross.-Geography:...

, London, and was largely brought up in the south of England. From an early age he knew that he wanted to paint and write. He attended Brighton Grammar School and went on to study at Brighton Art College, but he feels now that he is wholly self-educated. His colourful family provided his youthful imagination with rich material for his later novels, as did his passionate emotional involvements with both men and women.

He spent his period of National Service as a pacifist in the Royal Army Medical Corps in war-ravaged Hamburg. He has subsequently lived in London, Vienna, Athens and on the Greek island of Lesbos. His first novel was published when he was 28. His portrait of E.M. Forster was painted when he was 29. He has twice been married and has one son and 2 grandsons.

He has never stopped painting and writing, and now lives in East Sussex where he is writing his autobiography, staring with delight at the Seven Sisters, gardening, and producing the paintings he feels he has striven to create throughout his life – recently described in The Financial Times How to Spend It magazine as “muscular, powerfully envisaged oils”, the work of “a remarkable Indian summer”.

FICTION

Since 1955 Colin Spencer has had nine novels as well as numerous short stories published both in the UK and abroad. His work can be divided into the 4 semi-autobiographical works of the Generation sequence; the two satirical black comedies Poppy, Mandragora and the New Sex, and How the Greeks Kidnapped Mrs Nixon (republished in paperback under the title Cock-Up); the sexual realist drama Panic, a compassionate examination of the mentality of a child murderer; the experimental Asylum, merging the myths of Oedipus and the Old Testament Fall of Man into a narrative written in a style akin to poetic prose; and his first novel, set mostly in Vienna, An Absurd Affair, which he feels can be sensibly ignored.

That first novel was followed in 1963 by Anarchists in Love the first book of his four-volume novel sequence GENERATION which the author describes as the main core of his work, and “fictionalised autobiography.” Further volumes in the series The Tyranny of Love, Lovers in War and The Victims of Love appeared in 1967, 1969 and 1978. With a Dickensian breadth of characters and social settings, the four volumes follow the saga of the Simpson family from the end of World War I through to the 1960s age of sexual and social experimentation. It focuses in particular on the tortuous search for self-realisation and love by Sundy and Matthew, the two artistically gifted children of the raucously womanising Eddy. The sequence was described by Sir Huw Wheldon

Huw Wheldon

Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon OBE MC was a BBC broadcaster and executive.Wheldon was born in Prestatyn, Wales and educated at Friars School, Bangor. His father, Sir Wynn Wheldon, was a prominent educationalist, who had been awarded the DSO for gallantry in the First World War...

 as a “work of serious purpose; affecting, hilarious and grave. It is a tapestry of unforgettable characters in all their seaminess and sadness, their idealism and desires.”

THEATRE

Seven of Colin Spencer’s plays have been performed since the first production in December 1966 at the Hampstead Theatre Club

Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...

 of The Ballad of The False Barman. It was directed by Robin Phillips

Robin Phillips

Robin Phillips is an English actor and director.Phillips was born in Haslemere, Surrey, the son of EllenAnne and James William Phillips. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic and worked as an actor and director for many years in the United Kingdom, finishing as Artistic Director at the Greenwich...

 and featured Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Blakiston is an English actress who has appeared predominantly in television roles, notably in the series Brass. She also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi...

, Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith

Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL is an English actress.Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life...

 and Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is a British director and actor who, together with director Michael Bogdanov, founded the English Shakespeare Company...

. The play is a musical fantasy set in a beach bar run by a bald-headed lesbian “barman” and peopled by whores of various sexes and their clientèle, including a transvestite thieving vicar.

His next play to be performed, Spitting Image, also first appeared at Hampstead in October 1968 before moving to The Duke of York’s

Duke of York's Theatre

The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End Theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster. It was built for Frank Wyatt and his wife, Violet Melnotte, who retained ownership of the theatre, until her death in 1935. It opened on 10 September 1892 as the Trafalgar Square Theatre, with Wedding...

 in the West End. The production was directed by James Roose-Evans

James Roose-Evans

James Roose-Evans is a British theatre director, script-writer, priest and writer on experimental theatre, gesture, ritual and meditation. In 1959 he founded the Hampstead Theatre Club, in London; and in 1974 the Bleddfa Centre for creativity and spirituality, in Powys.-Biography:James...

 and starred Derek Fowlds

Derek Fowlds

Derek Fowlds is an English actor, known for playing Bernard Woolley in popular British television comedies Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and Oscar Blaketon in the long-running ITV police drama Heartbeat....

, Frank Middlemass

Frank Middlemass

Francis George Middlemass was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Algy Herries in To Serve Them All My Days and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in Heartbeat...

 and Lally Bowers. Further productions followed in 1969 off Broadway in New York, in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in Vienna and in Australia. The play concerns a homosexual couple who discover that they are expecting a baby, and society’s reaction to this unconventional conception. John Russell Taylor

John Russell Taylor

John Russell Taylor is an English critic and author. He is the author of critical studies of British theatre; of critical biographies of such important figures in Anglo-American film as Alfred Hitchcock, Alec Guinness, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, and Ingrid Bergman; of Strangers in Paradise: The...

 in his book, The Second Wave: British Drama of the Sixties, remarks “for all the play’s cheery light fantastic [it] contains altogether more truth than is quite comfortable.” The play was revived in a performance at the Hampstead Theatre in 2009 as part of the celebrations of the theatre’s 50th anniversary.

Three comedies: The Trial of St George, a satire on British justice when dealing with sexuality, inspired by the Oz Trial; Why Mrs Neustadter Always Loses, a wry monologue by an American divorcee exiled on a Greek island; and Keep It in the Family, a satire concerning a happy incestuous family (which Colin Spencer also directed) appeared between 1972 and 1978 at the Soho Poly

Soho Theatre

Soho Theatre is a theatre in the eponymous Soho district of the City of Westminster. It presents new works of theatre, together with comedy and cabaret....

. Interest in his work abroad led to performances of his play The Sphinx Mother, a modern Oedipus, at the Salzburg Festival

Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

 in 1972, and Lilith, a comedy of surrealist images, at the Schauspielhaus, Vienna in 1979.

NON-FICTION

Colin Spencer’s first published non-fiction book (written with Chris Barlas), which appeared in 1984, was a treatise on farting, Reports from Behind, illustrated by Spencer cartoons. His moving account of his affair with the Australian film director, John Tasker

John Tasker

John Tasker may refer to:* John Tasker , British cricketer* John Tasker , Australian theatre director* John Tasker, son-in-law of Thomas Brooke, Jr....

, Which of Us Two?, was first published by Viking in 1990, and then in a paperback edition by Penguin in 1991. The Faber Book of Food, an anthology, collected and written with Claire Clifton, was published by Faber & Faber in 1994. His interest in sexuality and social attitudes towards it led to the publication of Homosexuality – a History in 1995, and The Gay Kama Sutra in the following year.

His scholarly interest in food culture and history led to the publication of The Heretic’s Feast – a History of Vegetarianism in 1993 (also published in the US in 1995, and winning a special mention in the Premio Langhe Ceretto

Langhe Ceretto Prize

The Langhe Ceretto Prize is a literary award, introduced in 1991 and bestowed by a jury of international experts to books dealing with food and viticulture.-External link:*...

 prize of Italy), the award-winning British Food – an Extraordinary Thousand Years of History in 2002, and his most recently published book From Microliths to Microwaves – The Evolution of British Agriculture, Food and Cooking, an account of the long history of farming, food and cookery in Britain and how our national cuisine was forged.

COOKERY BOOKS

From early on Colin Spencer’s creative instincts were applied to food and cookery, and in 1978 his book Gourmet Cooking for Vegetarians was published. That was followed through the 80’s and 90’s by a series of other cookery books, totalling 18 in all.

For fourteen years he wrote a regular food column for the Guardian. His column was particularly concerned with exploring current issues and anxieties about food production and manufacture. In 2001 he was described by Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....

 as ‘the greatest living food writer’.

He has received many awards for his food writing, including the Guild of Food Writers Michael Smith Award, the André Simon Memorial Fund Special Award, the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the Best Culinary History Book in the World, and the Glenfiddich Cookery Writer of the Year Award.

VISUAL ARTS

During his twenties numerous of Colin Spencer’s drawings were published in The London Magazine, The Transatlantic Review and Encounter

Encounter (magazine)

Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neoconservative author Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991...

. A series of drawings of writers of our time was published in The Times Literary Supplement in 1959. Those he portrayed included John Betjeman

John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...

, E.M. Forster, C.P.Snow

C. P. Snow

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester CBE was an English physicist and novelist who also served in several important positions with the UK government...

 and his wife Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.-Career:...

, Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...

, Alan Ross

Alan Ross

Alan John Ross, , was a British poet, writer and editor. He was born in Calcutta, India, where he spent the first seven years of his life...

, Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...

, Angus Wilson

Angus Wilson

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...

, Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...

, John Lehmann

John Lehmann

Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.The fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond...

, Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith

Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.-Life:Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, was the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Contemporary Women Poets...

, V.S.Naipaul, and John Osborne

John Osborne

John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....

, among others. An oil portrait of E.M. Forster hung for many years in his rooms at King’s College Cambridge. On his death Forster left it to Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...

 and Peter Pears

Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE was an English tenor who was knighted in 1978. His career was closely associated with the composer Edward Benjamin Britten....

 and it is now in the Britten-Pears Library in Aldeburgh.
Colin Spencer had huge fun working alongside Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn is a British journalist, writer, and columnist who was known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women.-Early life:...

 to illustrate her column in the national Sunday newspaper, The Observer, with satirical drawings delineating the public’s interpretation of fashion trends. He was commissioned by the Royal Opera House to draw their idiosyncratic opera audience for their member’s Magazine. He has completed oil portraits for a wide range of private customers and collectors, including Carl Winter, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Lady Rawlinson; Diana Hopkinson; Michael Davidson; and Canon Frederic Hood of Pusey House, Oxford. His work resides in a wide range of private collections amongst those of Melvyn Bragg, Germaine Greer, Derek Grainger, Bob Swash, Diana Athill, Prue Leith and the late Mary Renault and Sir Huw Wheldon.

His artistic work since has ranged from landscape drawings of Winchelsea Beach and Rye countryside to oil portraits of the poet Harry Fainlight

Harry Fainlight

Harry Fainlight was a British/American poet associated with the Beats movement.He was the younger brother of Ruth Fainlight , also a poet, who edited a posthumous volume of his work, Selected Poems, published in 1986.-Personal life:...

 and has lately been exhibited in London, Rye and Brighton. A recent series of paintings entitled The Downs reflected the sensuous forms of the landscape of the South Downs where he lives. He is currently intensely involved in creating paintings which he describes as “images of the unknown, paths through conflict, compounds of sex and spirit, mysterious reflections, hints and fading memories which unsettle the darkness.” The themes of his present paintings are: War, Music, and Sex, the interior life of flowers, the sea bed and how do hills form roots.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Colin Spencer has been Co-Chairman (1982), Chairman (1988-90) and Vice-President (1990-99) of The Writers Guild of Great Britain and President of the Guild of Food Writers

Guild of Food Writers

The Guild of Food Writers is the professional association of food writers and broadcasters in the United Kingdom. It has over 390 authors, broadcasters, columnists and journalists amongst its members.-Activities:The Guild:...

 (1994-99). He continues as a judge for the J R Ackerley Prize for Autobiography

J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography

The J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography is awarded annually by the English Centre for International PEN to given to a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year. The winner receives £1,000 and a silver pen. The winner...

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FICTION

An Absurd Affair, 1961, Longmans Green. 1970, Panther Books, (paperback), ISBN10: 0586018174, ISBN13: 9780586018170.

Poppy, Mandragora And The New Sex, 1966, Anthony Blond. 1967, Panther Books, (paperback), ISBN10: 0586022333, ISBN13: 9780586022337.

Asylum, 1966, Anthony Blond. 1970, Panther Books, (paperback), ISBN10: 0586032940.

Panic, 1971, Martin Secker & Warburg, ISBN10: 0436480204; ISBN13: 9780436480201. 1973, Panther Books (paperback), ISBN10: 0586037667, ISBN13: 9780586037669.

How The Greeks Kidnapped Mrs Nixon, 1974, Quartet Books, ISBN10: 0704320606, ISBN13: 9780704320604. 1977, republished as Cock-up, Quartet Books, (paperback), ISBN13: 97807043131181977.

Novel sequence GENERATION

Anarchists In Love, 1963, Eyre & Spottiswood (with jacket designed by author). 1970, Panther Books, (paperback), ISBN10: 0586023291.

The Tyranny Of Love, 1967, Anthony Blond, ISBN10: 0218515014 ISBN13: 978-0218515015. 1970, Panther Books (paperback), ISBN10: 0586025618, ISBN13: 9780586025611.

Lovers In War, 1969, Anthony Blond, ISBN10: 0218512767, ISBN13: 9780218512762. 1970, Panther Books, ISBN10: 0586032932, ISBN13: 978-0586032930.

The Victims Of Love, 1978, Quartet Books, ISBN10: 0704321556, ISBN13: 9780704321557. 1980, Quartet Books (paperback), ISBN10: 0704333325, ISBN13: 9780704333321.

Uncollected Short Stories

Nightworkers, in London Magazine, vol. 2, no. 12, 1955.

An Alien World, in London Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6, 1956.

Nymph and Shepherd, in London Magazine, vol. 6, no. 8, 1959.

It’s Anemones for Mabel, in Transatlantic Review (London), Spring 1963.

The Room, in Transatlantic Review (London), Summer 1966.

Carpaccio’s Dream, in Harpers and Queen (London), Dec 1985.

PLAYS PRODUCED

The Ballad Of The False Barman, Dec 1966: Hampstead Theatre Club. Sept 1972: Palace Theatre, Watford.

Spitting Image, Sept 1968: Hampstead Theatre Club. Oct 1968: Duke of York’s, London. March 1969: Theatre de Lys, New York. Sept 1969: Schauspielhaus, Wuppertal, Germany. Nov 1969: Arnhem, The Netherlands. 1970: Vienna. 1971: Australia. Published in Plays and Players, September 1968.

The Sphinx Mother, Aug 1972: Salzburg Festival.

The Trial Of St George, March 1972: Soho Poly, London.

Why Mrs Neustadter Always Loses, Nov 1972: Soho Poly, London.

Keep It In The Family (written and directed by Colin Spencer), 1978: Soho Poly, London.

Lilith, Feb 1979: Schauspielhaus, Vienna.

NON-FICTION

Reports From Behind (with Chris Barlas) , 1984, Enigma Books (with 27 illustrations by Colin Spencer), ISBN10: 0727820389 ISBN13: 978-0727820389.

Which Of Us Two? The Story of a Love Affair, 1990, Viking , ISBN10: 0670830763, ISBN13: 978-0670830763. 1991, Penguin Books (paperback), ISBN10: 0140128239. ISBN13: 9780140128239.

The Faber Book of Food, an Anthology (with Claire Clifton), 1994, Faber and Faber ISBN10: 0571164676 ISBN13: 9780571164677. 1997, Faber and Faber, (paperback) ISBN10: 0571178871 ISBN13: 9780571178872.

The Heretic's Feast – a History of Vegetarianism, 1993, Fourth Estate, ISBN10: 1857020782, ISBN13: 9781857020786. 1994, Fourth Estate (paperback 2nd edition), ISBN10: 1857022505, ISBN13: 9781857022506. 1995, University Press of New England (US edition), ISBN10: 0874517087, ISBN13: 9780874517088. 1995, University Press of New England, (paperback), ISBN10: 0874517605, ISBN13: 9780874517606. 2001, Republished under title Vegetarianism: A History, Grub Street, (paperback, 2nd revised edition), ISBN10: 1902304586 ISBN13: 978-1902304588. 2002, Four Walls Eight Windows, (hardback, 2nd edition), ISBN-10: 1568582382 ISBN-13: 978-1568582382. 2002, Da Capo Press (Kindle Edition).

Homosexuality – a History, 1995, Fourth Estate, ISBN10: 1857021436, ISBN13: 9781857021431. 1996 Fourth Estate (paperback), ISBN10: 1857024478, ISBN-13: 9781857024470. 1996 under title Homosexuality in History, Harcourt, (US edition) ISBN10: 0151002231 ISBN13: 978-0151002238. New York.

The Gay Kama Sutra, 1996, B.T. Batsford, ISBN10: 0713481099 ISBN13: 9780713481099. 1996, Harmony Books, (1st US edition), ISBN-10: 0517705702 ISBN-13: 9780517705704. 1997 Allen & Unwin, ISBN10: 1864484039 ISBN13: 9781864484038. 1997, St Martin’s Press, ISBN10: 0312167539, ISBN13: 9780312167530.

British Food – An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History, 2002, Grub Street, (illustrated edition), ISBN10: 1904010164 ISBN13: 9781904010166. 2003, Columbia University Press, (US edition), ISBN-10: 0231131100, ISBN-13: 978-0231131100. 2004, Grub Street (paperback), ISBN10: 1904010709 SBN13: 9781904010708. May 2011, Grub Street (paperback), ISBN-10: 1908117036. ISBN-13: 978-1908117038.

From Microliths to Microwaves, The Evolution of British Agriculture, Food and Cooking, May 2011, Grub Street, ISBN10: 1908117001, ISBN13: 9781908117007.

TELEVISION

Vandal Rule OK?, 1977, Documentary on vandalism written, narrated and presented by Colin Spencer.

Flossie , 1974, TV play.

COOKERY BOOKS

Gourmet Cooking For Vegetarians, 1978, Andre Deutsch, ISBN10: 0233969616. 1980, Robin Clark, (paperback), , ISBN10: 0860720357, ISBN13: 9780860720355.

Good And Healthy, 1983, Robson Books, ISBN10: 0860512223. ISBN13: 9780860512226.

Colin Spencer's Vegetarian Wholefood Cookbook, 1985, Panther Books, 1985, Panther/Granada, (paperback), ISBN10: 0586063161, ISBN13: 9780586063163.

Cordon Vert, 52 Vegetarian Gourmet Dinner Party Menus, 1985, Thorsons, SBN10: 0722508948, ISBN13: 978072250894. 1991, Thorsons (2nd revised edition, paperback), ISBN10: 0722526210 ISBN13: 9780722526217.

Mediterranean Vegetarian Cooking, 1986, Thorsons, ISBN10: 0722509790 ISBN13: 9780722509791.

The Vegetarians' Healthy Diet Book (Positive Health Guide), (with T.A.B. Sanders), 1986, Taylor & Francis, ISBN10: 0948269057. 1986 Martin Dunitz (paperback). 1988, OPTIMA (new edition, paperback), ISBN10: 0356145077 ISBN-13: 9780356145075. 2004, under title The Vegetatian Health Diet Book (Positive Health Guide), ISBN10: 0948269057, ISBN13: 9780948269059.

The New Vegetarian, 1986, Elm Tree Books, ISBN10: 0241118948 ISBN13: 9780241118948. 1988, under title The New Vegetarian: Cooking With Style the Vegetarian Way, Viking Press, ISBN10: 0670812714 ISBN13: 9780670812714. 1993 as The New Vegetarian: The Ultimate Guide to Gourmet Cooking and Healthy Living, Key Porter Books (paperback), ISBN10: 1550133799 ISBN13: 9781550133790. 1996, under title Dairy Book of Home Cookery The Ultimate Guide to Gourmet Cooking and Healthy Living, Brockhampton Press (hardback 3rd edition), ISBN10: 186019480X. ISBN13: 9781860194801. 2000, Gaia Books (paperback, 2nd revised edition), ISBN-10: 1856750167 ISBN-13: 978-1856750165.

Colin Spencer's Fish Cookbook, 1986, Pan Books, (paperback) ISBN10: 0330292218. 1994, Bracken Books, ISBN10: 185891213X, ISBN13: 9781858912134.

One-course Feasts, 1986, Conran Octopus (spiral comb-bound), ISBN10: 1850290717 ISBN13: 9781850290711. 1991, Conran Octopus (hardback, new edition), ISBN10: 1850293546 ISBN13: 9781850293545. 1994 Conran Octopus, (paperback), ISBN10: 1850296391 ISBN13: 9781850296393.

Feast For Health, 1987, Dorling Kindersley, ISBN10: 0863182208, ISBN13: 9780863182204.

Al Fresco A Feast for Outdoor Entertaining, 1987, Thorsons, ISBN10: 0722513372 ISBN13: 9780722513378.

The Romantic Vegetarian: Very Special Meals for That Very Special Occasion, 1988, ISBN10: 0722513275, ISBN13: 9780722513279.

Colin Spencer’s Summer Cooking, 1992, Thorsons, (paperback), ISBN10: 0722526539, ISBN-3: 9780722526538.

The Adventurous Vegetarian, 1989, Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, ISBN10: 0304318086, ISBN13: 9780304318087. 1992, Cassell Illustrated; (paperback, new edition, ISBN-10: 030434124X, ISBN13: 9780304341245. 1997, Caxton Editions (hardback), ISBN10: 1860192718, ISBN13: 9781860192715.

Vegetable Pleasures, 1992, Fourth Estate, ISBN10: 1857020162, ISBN13: 9781857020168.

Colin Spencer's Vegetable Guide, 1995, Conran Octopus, ISBN10: 1850296456, ISBN13: 9781850296454. 1996, Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN10: 084781971X ISBN13: 9780847819713. 1998, Conran Octopus; (paperback, new edition), ISBN10: 185029982X ISBN13: 9781850299820. 2006, Conran Octopus ISBN10: 1840914025 ISBN13: 9781840914023.

Green Gastronomy, 1996, Bloomsbury, ISBN10: 0747522987 ISBN13: 9780747522980.

Mainly Vegetables, 1998, Tesco.

EXTERNAL LINKS

http://www.colinspencer.co.uk/