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Muriel Spark
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…
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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…
All eight stunningly redesigned Muriel Spark novels in one fresh pack with styled spine London skyline.
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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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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…
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So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark's haunting tale, 'The Leaf-sweeper', before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain 'madman' - Johnnie Geddes, hell-bent…
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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…
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This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.
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…
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Martin Stannard (University of Leicester)
The compelling first biography of a twentieth-century literary enigma.
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…
Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debut
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.
A sharp-eyed and acidly funny story of the mid-century publishing world, this is one of Muriel Spark's most charming novels.
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When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a ‘pisseur de copie’, that he ‘urinates frightful prose’, little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that ‘no life can be carried…
‘I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark’s clever and elegant books’ - Evelyn Waugh Now available in print and eBook as…
In four short works of contemporary fiction that probe metaphysical truths, a charismatic teacher has a devastating impact on her students, young women struggle for survival in a post-war London…
The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway
Bryan Cheyette
Professor Cheyette’s study is the first to explore Muriel Spark’s twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism.
Patricia Stubbs
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).
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.
Available at last are all the poems by one of the twentieth century’s greatest British writers, Dame Muriel Spark: a true literary artist, acerbic and exhilarating (London Evening Standard).
Celebrate the immortal Muriel Spark’s hundredth birthday by imbibing a delicious glass of her bubbly wit
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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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.
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…
Essays, reviews and recollections by the great twentieth-century novelist Muriel Spark, edited with a preface by Penelope Jardine.
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…
The great 20th century writer explores the work of the former Poet Laureate
Originally published: Great Britain: Macmillan and Co., 1965.
A slender satirical gem from the master of malice and mayhem (The New York Times)
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…
Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Travel the continent with this new collection of Muriel Spark’s European novels as your guide - an often surprising, occasionally moving, and always unfailingly funny trip.
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…
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…
A suspense novel about three castaways marooned on an island owned by an eccentric recluse.
Dame Muriel Spark delivers a delightfully alarming novel, full of high society and low cunning.
Muriel Spark’s bracingly salty memoir is a no-holds-barred trip through an extraordinary writer’s life.
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
