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Prue Leith Books in Order

Prue Leith has written 42 books, published between 1972 and 2026. The first book is Leith's All Party Cookbook (1972) and the newest is Being Old...and learning to love it! (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
42
Published
1972–2026
Pages on record
7,032 in 29 of 42 books
Reading time
117–176 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,032 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 29 of 42 titles with a page count on record.

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Prue Leith, born Prudence Margaret Leith on 18 February 1940, is a South African and British restaurateur, chef, cookery writer, novelist and broadcaster. Leith judged BBC Two's Great British Menu from 2005 to 2016, then replaced Mary Berry as a judge on The Great British Bake Off in 2017 after the show moved to Channel 4, staying until 2025. Leith was also Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, from 2016 to 2024. The catalogue lists 42 books from Leith's All Party Cookbook (1972) to Being Old...and learning to love it! (2026), including Leith's Cookery Bible and the Angelotti Chronicles novels. Paul Hollywood shares credit on 2 of the books.

How many Prue Leith books are there?

Prue Leith has 42 books, released between 1972 and 2026. 3 of them belong to the Angelotti Chronicles series.

Prue Leith Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 42 Prue Leith books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Cooking for Friends by Prue Leith (1978)
  2. Cover of The Best of Prue Leith by Prue Leith (1979)
  3. Cover of Leith's Cookery Course by Prue Leith (1979)
  4. Cover of Leith's Cook Book by Prue Leith (1985)
  5. Cover of Prue Leith's Cookery School by Prue Leith (1985)
  6. Cover of Entertaining with Style by Prue Leith (1985)
  7. Cover of Leith's Cookery Bible by Prue Leith (1991)
  8. Cover of The Sunday Times Slim Plan by Prue Leith (1992)
  9. Cover of Leith's Complete Christmas by Prue Leith (1992)
  10. Cover of Fruit by Prue Leith (1993)
  11. Cover of Soups and Starters by Prue Leith (1993)
  12. Cover of Quick and Easy by Prue Leith (1993)
  13. Cover of Chicken Dishes by Prue Leith (1993)
  14. Cover of Leith's Confident Cooking: Step By Step Recipes and Techniques by Prue Leith (1993)
  15. Cover of Leith's Contemporary Cooking by Prue Leith (1994)
  16. Cover of Leith's Guide to Wine by Prue Leith (1995)
  17. Cover of Vegetarian Cooking by Prue Leith (1996)
  18. Cover of Salads by Prue Leith (1996)
  19. Cover of Chef School: Leith's School of Food and Wine by Prue Leith (1998)
  20. Cover of Leith's Easy Dinners by Prue Leith (1999)
  21. Cover of Leaving Patrick by Prue Leith (2000)
  22. Cover of Sisters by Prue Leith (2001)
  23. Cover of A Lovesome Thing by Prue Leith (2004)
  24. Cover of The Gardener by Prue Leith (2007)
  1. 1
    Leith's All Party Cookbook1972 · confirmed 1/4
    1972–
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  2. 2
    Cooking for Friends1978 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978184
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  3. 3
    The Best of Prue Leith1979 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979189
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  4. 4
    Leith's Cookery Course1979 · 349 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979349
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  5. 5
    The Cook's Handbook1981 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981224
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  6. 6
    Leith's Cook Book1985 · 787 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985787
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  7. 7
    Prue Leith's Cookery School1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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  8. 8
    Entertaining with Style1985 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985224
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  9. 9
    Dinner Parties1987 · confirmed 1/4
    1987–
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  10. 10
    Leith's Cookery Bible1991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  11. 11
    The Sunday Times Slim Plan1992 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199296
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  12. 12
    Leith's Complete Christmas1992 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992224
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  13. 13
    Fruit1993 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199364
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  14. 14
    Soups and Starters1993 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199364
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  15. 15
    Leith's Vegetarian Cookery Book1993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  16. 16
    Leith's Baking1993 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993160
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  17. 17
    Quick and Easy1993 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199364
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  18. 18
    Chicken Dishes1993 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199364
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  19. 19
    Leith's Confident Cooking: Step By Step Recipes and Techniques1993 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993320
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  20. 20
    Leith's Contemporary Cooking1994 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994255
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  21. 21
    Leith's Guide to Wine1995 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995256
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  22. 22
    Vegetarian Cooking1996 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199664
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  23. 23
    Salads1996 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199664
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  24. 24
    Chef School: Leith's School of Food and Wine1998 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998192
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  25. 25
    Leith's Easy Dinners1999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  26. 26
    Leaving Patrick2000 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000320
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  27. 27
    Sisters2001 · 291 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001291
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  28. 28
    A Lovesome Thing2004 · 333 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004333
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  29. 29
    The Gardener2007 · 363 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007363
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  30. 30
    Choral Society2008 · 313 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008313
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Prue Leith books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Angelotti Chronicles in order

3 books
  1. 1. The House at Chorlton / Laura's Story / The Food of Love
  2. 2. The Prodigal Daughter
  3. 3. The Lost Son

Great British Bake Off in order

3 books
  1. 12. Get Baking for Friends and Family
  2. 14. Love to Bake
  3. 16. Favorite Flavors

Standalone books

36 books

36 Prue Leith titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Prue Leith books in order?

You only need to read Prue Leith books in order within the Angelotti Chronicles series, which holds 3 of the 42 Prue Leith books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Prue Leith

Start with Leith's All Party Cookbook (1972), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Prue Leith book?

Being Old...and learning to love it! (2026) is the newest Prue Leith book released so far.

Is there a new Prue Leith book coming?

No next Prue Leith book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Prue Leith at a glance

Still publishing
Prue Leith published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Prue Leith books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
7,032 pages across the 29 of 42 books with a recorded length, a median of 255 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Prue Leith books, 16 of 42, were published in the 1990s.

What the Prue Leith books are about

30 of the 42 Prue Leith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cooking is tagged on 8 of 30. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.