Fleur Talbot debe sobrevivir en el increíblemente clasista y machista Londres de después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y ella no quiere solo sobrevivir: quiere vivir y quiere hacerlo a su manera. Ingresa...

En el Edimburgo de los años 30, la escuela femenina Marcia Blane es la institución llamada a educar a las élites del mañana. Entre la plana docente destaca la peculiar Jean Brodie: una mujer sofisticada,...

Con gracia paradójica, la novela de Muriel Spark afina y condensa la diferencia entre géneros tan disímiles como el thriller y los manuales de autoayuda y se anticipa además a las previsiones en temas...

Los solteros es una novela tan ingeniosa como malvada, que nos trae a «la novelista británica con más talento y capacidad de innovación» (The New York Times) en su momento de más perverso esplendor.Un...

Esta colección cuenta con grandes nombres de la literatura, pero rescata también a maestros del género menos reconocidos. El resultado es una deliciosa oda a lo escalofriante y a lo extraño. Llega el...

The Observing Eye is a collection of Muriel Spark's brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms. No other writer can hold a candle to her wry, puckish observations:'Neurotics are awfully quick to notice...

When Barbara Vaughan's fiancé 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....

Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their geriatric...

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,...

'Mercurially funny, playful and mischievous' Ali Smith'I was in heaven reading this book. I think she writes like an angel . . . just blissful' Stephen FryA novel of 'pure delight' (Claire Tomalin) by...

Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the...

At the age of twenty, Mary Shelley secured her place in history by writing Frankenstein (1818), now acknowledged as one of the great literary classics. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin...

The essays, reviews, memoirs and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. Grouped into four sections (Art and Poetry; Autobiography...

Muriel Spark always regarded the Brontés with a novelist's eye. As Boyd Tonkin argues in his lively introduction, written for this new edition, the Brontés inspired Spark at the very beginning of her...

In her foreword to All The Poems(2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write "poetic" prose, but feel that...

'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème.' Ian RankinOne October evening five London couples gather for a dinner...

A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson.Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot...

'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times.' Ian RankinIn this first novel by Muriel Spark - author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - the only things that aren't ambiguous are Spark's matchless...

" Dans la vie, Muriel Spark était un peu devin, un peu médium, un peu sorcière... et bien sûr elle l'était plus encore en tant qu'auteur. Au fil d'une conversation, on l'entendait répondre à ce qui n'était...

" Un chef-d'oeuvre à la fois traître et piquant. " The New Yorker Après seize ans de bons et loyaux services au sein d'un cabinet d'experts-comptables, Lise, trente-quatre ans, décide de tout abandonner...

Un classique de la littérature écossaise du XXe siècle indisponible depuis des décennies à redécouvrir. Une guerre vient de s'achever, un monde a disparu. Nous sommes à Londres, en 1945, époque où, à...

Muriel Spark's autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original...

A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what haunts...