Muriel Spark

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation....

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down....

A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school during the 1930's instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art....

The lady inhabitants of a London ladies' hostel emerging from the shadow of World War II do their best to act as if the world were back to normal....

The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century. All stories performed unabridged by three star readers....

A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium...the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark's supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe....

Muriel Spark's blackly comic masterwork begins with a voice on the telephone warning, "Remember, you must die"....

Are they a group of mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance, or poor fools....

The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie, an eccentric teacher, makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring....

First published in 1988 and described by Ali Smith as 'one of Muriel Spark's most liberating, and meditative novels', A Far Cry from Kensington shows Muriel Spark at the mature height of her powers....

Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, adopts a girlier tone of voice and heads to the airport to fly south....

Nobody writing has a keener instinct than Muriel Spark for hypocrisy, self-delusion, and moral ambiguity....

Muriel Spark has created a many-faceted novel, both comic and serious, enriched by a wealth of information.....

It is 1945; a time of cultural and political change, and also one of slender means. Spark's evocative and sharply drawn novel focuses on a group of women living together in a hostel....

"Remember you must die" says the telephone caller. This the voice, and message communicated in a series of anonymous calls made to many elderly people....

Short and sophisticated, Reality and Dreams follows the career of self-centered, middle-aged film director Tom Richards....

Die aus Bayern stammende Psychologin Dr. Hildegard Wolf hat sich nach einigen Jahren in verschiedenen Ländern in Paris niedergelassen und...

À Édimbourg dans les années trente, Mademoiselle Brodie enseigne dans une des écoles de filles les plus huppées d'Écosse. Ses méthodes...