Spencer Smart

Many years ago, Spencer Smart dug up his roots from rural East Anglia, put them in the back of an old Volvo, then planted them by a sandy beach in west Cornwall. He has worked as a technical author, marketing consultant and part-time writer/publisher since the late 1980s.

Spencer has three strands to his writing and publishing:

Quiz books: Having long realised that a career in music could never happen, Spencer has satisfied himself with absorbing tonnes of useless facts. Spencer was a member of a highly-successful pop quiz team in the 1980s/90s and continues quizzing to this day.

Thriller: Spencer’s first thriller No Regrets introduced Dutch detective Pieter van Es, who fled Amsterdam for a not-so-peaceful new life in Penzance. The van Es series is currently on hold, but expect new titles in the not-too-distant future...

Crosbie Garstin: Spencer has edited and republished Crosbie Garstin's Penhale trilogy. Arguably the BEST adventure novels of west Cornwall, The Owls’ House, High Noon and The West Wind were written in the 1920s and predate Poldark by a number of years. All three are dynamic, engaging and atmospheric Cornish adventure novels that are now finding a new audience amongst lovers of 18th century Cornwall.