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ISBN: 9780241956779 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 0241956773 ISBN13: 9780241956779
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2012
Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of special girls at Marcia Blaine School. Each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex ... More

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ISBN: 9780141181424 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 0141181427 ISBN13: 9780141181424
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Feb 2000
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 at the Marcia Blaine Academy ... More

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ISBN: 9780857862273 - The Complete Short Stories

The Complete Short Stories
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 0857862278 ISBN13: 9780857862273
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Canongate Canons
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Aug 2011
From the cruel irony of 'A Member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Gp-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the... More

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ISBN: 9780140024265 - The Girls of Slender Means

The Girls of Slender Means
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 0140024263 ISBN13: 9780140024265
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New impression
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 May 1975
Presents the story of the girls of a good family. This is London 1945, when all nice people are poor. Muriel Spark sets us down among the girls of good family but slender means as they fight it out, from their Kensington hostel to the last... More

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ISBN: 9780141188355 - The Ballad of Peckham Rye

The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 0141188359 ISBN13: 9780141188355
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Apr 2006
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... More

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Curriculum Vitae
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 1847771025 ISBN13: 9781847771025
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd Lives and Letters
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Nov 2009

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Symposium
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 1844082474 ISBN13: 9781844082476
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Sep 2006
Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best. This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at... More

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The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 0141188340 ISBN13: 9780141188348
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Apr 2006
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. More

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ISBN: 9781844085514 - A Far Cry from Kensington

A Far Cry from Kensington
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 1844085511 ISBN13: 9781844085514
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Nov 2009
'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, INDEPENDENT When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. More

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Memento Mori
Muriel Spark

ISBN10: 184408552X ISBN13: 9781844085521
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Feb 2010
A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times) Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. More

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