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Muriel Spark

Scotland (1918 - 2006)

Muriel Spark is an internationally respected biographer, critic and novelist.

Novels

   The Comforters (1954)
   Robinson (1958)
   Memento Mori (1959)
   The Bachelors (1960) (with L P Hartley)
   The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
   The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
   The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
   The Public Image (1968)
   The Very Fine Clock (1968)
   The Driver's Seat (1970)
   Not to Disturb (1971)
   The Hothouse by the East River (1973)
   The Abbess of Crewe (1974)
   The Takeover (1976)
   Territorial Rights (1979)
   Loitering with Intent (1981)
   The Only Problem (1984)
   A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)
   Symposium (1990)
   Reality and Dreams (1996)
   The Quest for Lavishes Ghast (1998)
   Aiding and Abetting (2000)
   The Finishing School (2004)

Collections

   The Fanfarlo (poems) (1952)
   The Go-Away Bird (1958)
   Collected Stories (1967)
   Bang-Bang You're Dead (1982)
   Going Up To Sotheby's (poems) (1982)
   The Stories of Muriel Spark (1985)
   The Collected Stories of Muriel Spark (1994)
   The Portobello Road (1995)
   The Young Man Who Discovered The Secret of Life (1999)
   Selected Stories (2001)
   The Complete Short Stories (2001)
   All the Stories of Muriel Spark (2001)
   The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark (2003)
   All the Poems of Muriel Spark (poems) (2004)
   Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022) (with others)

Plays

Doctors of Philosophy (1963)

Non fiction

   Emily Bronte (1966)
   Mary Shelley (1987)
   John Masefield (1992)
   Curriculum Vitae (1992)
   Child of Light : Mary Shelley (2002)
   Walking on Air (2012)
   The Golden Fleece (2014)
   The Informed Air (2014)
   The Essence of the Brontes (2014)
   A Good Comb (2018)
   The Observing Eye (2018)

Omnibus editions

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem (2004)

Anthologies containing stories by Muriel Spark

The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959)
Spine Chillers (1961)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Haunting Women (1988)
The Literary Ghost (1991)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)
Nightshade (2000)

Short stories

	The Leaf-Sweeper (1956)
	The Portobello Road (1956)
	The Girl I Left Behind Me (1957)
	Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse (1958)
	The House of the Famous Poet (1966)

Awards

	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1969) : The Public Image
	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1981) : Loitering with Intent

Muriel Spark recommends

In Search Of A Beginning (2004)
Marie-Francoise Allain and Yvonne Cloetta
"A modern classic."

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
Jeanette Winterson
"A fresh voice with a mind behind it is just what we need now in the literature of the English language and certainly Jeanette Winterson provides it...She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides."

Family Ties (1960)
Clarice Lispector
"Clarice Lispector reminds one of the best of Katherine Mansfield and Chekov, but her voice is uniquely her own."

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