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 Behind Me’, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom th...

Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence....

When Barbara Vaughan\"s fiance joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is 1961, and the nation of Israel is still in its infancy....

Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics. Remember you must die. Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls....

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. Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian....

When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a pisseur de copie , that he urinates frightful prose , little does she realise the repercussions....

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 the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit....

The May of Teck Club \"exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years\". Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown....

From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe\"s band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of human fa...

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

Мюриэл Спарк (родилась в 1918) - английская писательница, продолжающая в своем творчестве традицию сатирического английского романа. Для ее произведений характерны элементы фантастики и гротеска, острые житейские и психологические конфликты....

One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying ‘the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)’ and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment....

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction....

Mit ihren Romanen wurde Muriel Spark zu einer der am meisten bewunderten Autorinnen der angelsachsischen Welt. Формат: 11 см x 18 см....

\"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...\" 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....