Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly dressed temptress...
New edition of this extremely clever and entertaining novel, published as a Virago Modern Classic with an introduction by Mark Lawson...
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The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite...
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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 the m...
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Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin Essentials" edition. 'Give...
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I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector...
The doyenne of literary satire, bestselling author of "The Abbess of Crewe" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, " Muriel Spark spins a speculative yarn around the true-crime case of...
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The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway...
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Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He’s been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London’s bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh...
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Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday -- in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible...
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A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the...
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This is beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, "The Girls of Slender Means". 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor,...
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Se la narrativa, il teatro e il cinema anglosassoni ci hanno abituato all’archetipo della zitella, non ci hanno mai, forse, consegnato un personaggio disturbante quanto Lise, la protagonista...
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Muriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise – heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress...
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress...
'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. ' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary...
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