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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 ...

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The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway

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‘No two pictures of her look at all alike,’ Stephen Schiff wrote of Muriel Spark in 1993. ‘In one she may seem a sturdy English rose, in another a seductress ...

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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, ...

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Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests’ dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best.

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This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.

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Muriel Spark’s stunning debut novel

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Bound for the Azores, a plane crashes onto an isolated island somewhere in the North Atlantic. January Marlow is one of the three survivors – and the only woman. She wakes ...

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Now available as a stunning Canon ‘A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and ...

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In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A pioneering work of science fiction, it captured the popular imagination from the start. The daughter ...

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The divine Spark is shining at her brightest . . . Pure delight’ Claire Tomalin, INDEPENDENT

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A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, ‘mistress of the highest high comedy’ (The Times)

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Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark’s satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit

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A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark’s eighteenth novel, was first published in 1988.

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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when first published in 1965, The Mandelbaum Gate is among Muriel Spark’s most accomplished novels.

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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 ...

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First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark’s writings on the Brontë sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to ‘bring vision into the lives of ...

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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 ...

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‘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 a ...

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The great 20th century writer explores the work of the former Poet Laureate

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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

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Described by David Lodge as ‘her first masterpiece’, Memento Mori opens with a telephone call and the words ‘Remember you must die’. Over several months, a circle of ...

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Spark’s poems are witty, idiosyncratic and haunting, transforming the familiar into glittering moments of strangeness, revealing the dark – and light – music beneath ...

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Caroline Rose has a problem. She hears voices and the incessant tapping of typewriter keys, and she seems to be a character in a novel . . . A comedy of errors, a crime ...