Author: Muriel Spark

A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainm...

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and ...

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. Soo...

From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's...

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 ...

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 t...

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 come...

Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wi...

'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITHIn The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once ag...

A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Brontës, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, ...

Muriel Sparks classic novel of the power of loyalty and influence now available in a stunning package that is accessible for all readers. ...

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.A tour de force of contemporary Scottish literature, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark is...

The Observing Eye is a collection of Muriel Spark''s brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms. No other writer can hold a candle to her wry, puckis...

Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. Hes been accused of forgery, and suddenly West Londons bachelors are all in a t...

Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the...

From the cruel irony of ''A member of the Family'' to the fateful echoes of ''The Go-Away Bird'' and the unexpectedly sinister ''The Girl I Left Be...

Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public unde...

When Barbara Vaughan's fiancé joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is ...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionMuriel Spark's classic The Prime ...

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 pano...

Often described as the perfect partner to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark''s last novel is set in Switzerland where Rowland and his wife Nina ...

Described by Gore Vidal as ''a novel written at the top of her form and so unique'', Reality and Dreams concerns the delirious, egocentric film dir...

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with ...

Layers of intrigue; triangulating love affairs; murders; international spy-craft; adultery; parental interference; the sweet careless rapture of yo...