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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
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 on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgement, and as a consequence, loses not ...Show more
Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Reissued ahead of the Muriel Spark Centenary in 2018. Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her ...Show more
Drivers Seat by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional exper ...Show more
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark; Mark Lawson (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose members ...Show more
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatr ...Show more
Memento Mori: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call ...Show more
Spark's Europe by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of t ...Show more
Spark's Satire - Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, thes ...Show more
Territorial Rights by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classic #673
Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, ...Show more
The Bachelors by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery. 'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. T ...Show more
The Bachelors by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented defrauded or stolen from, blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid seances and then plunged into the nastiest of law ...Show more
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the li ...Show more