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    Muriel Spark

    Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

    Muriel Spark

    Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

    Books by Muriel Spark

    • The Girls of Slender Means

      Muriel Spark

      E Book, 2012

      "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies'...

    • The Bachelors

      Muriel Spark

      E Book, 2014

      Spark’s very British bachelors come in every stripe

    • The Informed Air: Essays

      Muriel Spark, Penelope Jardine

      E Book, 2014

      Now in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of “the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker)

    • A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark

      Muriel Spark

      E Book, 2018

      Celebrate the immortal Muriel Spark’s hundredth birthday by imbibing a delicious glass of her bubbly wit

    • Loitering with Intent

      Muriel Spark

      E Book, 2001

      Where does art start or reality end?

    • The Ballad of Peckham Rye

      Muriel Spark

      E Book, 2024

      A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)

    • The Ballad of Peckham Rye

      Muriel Spark

      Paperback, 2024

      A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)

    • Loitering with Intent

      Muriel Spark

      Paperback, 2024

      Where does art start or reality end?

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