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A sharp-eyed and acidly funny story of the mid-century publishing world, this is one of Muriel Spark's most charming novels.

(Hardback, Centenary Edition)

A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Sparks eighteenth novel, was first published in 1988.

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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 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

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These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit.
Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils.

(Paperback, Main - Canons Edition)

Travel the continent with this new collection of Muriel Spark's European novels as your guide - an often surprising, occasionally moving, and always unfailingly funny trip.

(Paperback, Main - Canons Edition)

'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' - Evelyn Waugh

Now available in print and eBook as a gorgeous Canon.

(Hardback, Centenary Edition)

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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 experience takes on a far darker significance.

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

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Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, 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 - the 'creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a world of adult games they will never forget.

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Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and suicide, the thin and successful Mrs Hawkins recalls how she came through it all.

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Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her spell the image must be carefully cultivated. Only Annabel hasn't calculated on the plans of her husband.

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Muriel Spark claimed The Drivers 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 and with violence on her mind you will understand why.

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An essential read for fans of Muriel Spark - the definitive selection of her correspondence from her disastrous married life in South Africa, through to her experience in post-war London as a struggling writer, and her glittering success as a novelist.

(Hardback, Centenary Edition)

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* 'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest . . . Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, Independent

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The divine Spark is shining at her brightest . . . Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, INDEPENDENT

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This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.

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A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times)

(Paperback, Main - Canons Edition)

Anarchic, irreverant and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit.

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Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best.

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Witty yet elegant, Territorial Rights is a celebration of human imperfection and complexity, with as many shifting identities, wardrobe changes, and sumptuous settings as a comic opera.

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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 lives of all he meets.