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Muriel Spark
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants’ office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and…
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Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional school mistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her…
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An elegant collector’s edition of Muriel Spark’s classic novel of one teacher’s terrible, far-reaching influence on the lives of her students.
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A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts…
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A title written by the author of novels such as Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender…
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls…
Ali Smith
Full transcript of Ali Smith’s Muriel Spark lecture, given in November 2017.
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Alan Taylor
This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course…
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A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, ‘mistress of the highest high comedy’ (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th…
This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.
Patricia Stubbs
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Martin Stannard
The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - ‘a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling’ (Mail on Sunday).
Martin Stannard (University of Leicester)
The compelling first biography of a twentieth-century literary enigma.
Spark’s poems are witty, idiosyncratic and haunting, transforming the familiar into glittering moments of strangeness, revealing the dark - and light - music beneath the mundane.
This Companion brings together an international ‘Brodie set’ of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark’s work, from her early poetry to her last novel.
Ruth Whittaker
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All eight stunningly redesigned Muriel Spark novels in one fresh pack with styled spine London skyline.
Celebrate the immortal Muriel Spark’s hundredth birthday by imbibing a delicious glass of her bubbly wit
Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her…
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Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and…
Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debut
The Driver’s Seat, Spark’s own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as her spiny and treacherous masterpiece.
This lethally witty and morally penetrating new novel is set at a vaguely disreputable finishing school run by a sometimes writer and his wife. Into his creative writing class comes…
Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver’s Seat, The Only Problem.
First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark’s writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte’s poems.
Mrs. Hawkins takes us back to her years in postwar London, where she spent her days working for a mad publisher and her nights dispensing advice from home. But she…
Originally published: Great Britain: Macmillan and Co., 1965.
Dame Muriel Spark delivers a delightfully alarming novel, full of high society and low cunning.
Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities, wardrobe changes, and sumptuous settings as a comic opera.
Where does art start or reality end?
The fraying fringes of 1950s literary London
Together for the first time in one sparkling, delicious volume, here are the greatest essays of Muriel Spark
Wheels spin within wheels in Spark’s comedy of betrayals and terrorism, set in her beloved Venice
Spark’s very British bachelors come in every stripe
A slender satirical gem from the master of malice and mayhem (The New York Times)
Includes an essay by James Wood –Cover.
Now available as a stunning Canon edition: ‘A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker’…
The doyenne of literary satire, bestselling author of The Abbess of Crewe and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark spins a speculative yarn around the true-crime case of…
Essays, reviews and recollections by the great twentieth-century novelist Muriel Spark, edited with a preface by Penelope Jardine.
Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides…
Anarchic, irreverant and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark’s satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit.
First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Public Image couldn’t be more relevant for today’s celebrity-obsessed culture. This is Spark at her wittiest, wickedest best.
Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions, begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark’s tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a…
Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age
Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of ‘special girls’ at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the…
