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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
$28.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
With a cover design by Lucienne Day When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgem ...Show more
John Masefield by Muriel Spark
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$34.95 (82% off)
Category: Critical Thinking
John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voyage round Cape Horn. The next three years he spent in New York, in a bakery, a livery stable, a saloon and a carpet factory. Back in England, he wrote for ...Show more
Memento Mori: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call ...Show more
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem by Muriel Spark
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
"A perfect book"--and basis for the Maggie Smith film--about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and somet ...Show more
Spark's Europe by Muriel Spark
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$24.99 (75% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of t ...Show more
Spark's Satire - Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson by Muriel Spark
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$24.99 (75% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
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, thes ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
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 respectabi ...Show more
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons
'One of her funniest novels ...Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionab ...Show more
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'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 Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, t ...Show more
The Informed Air by Muriel Spark; Penelope Jardine
$28.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Bront#65533;s, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, Mary Shelley), love, Piero della Francesca, life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber" 1960s Rome, faith, and parties (on her fir ...Show more
The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark
$39.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontes, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first Ne ...Show more