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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark; William Boyd (Introduction by); Alan Taylor (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The\Collected Muriel Spark Novels Ser.
'Mercurially funny, playful and mischievous' Ali Smith 'I was in heaven reading this book. I think she writes like an angel . . . just blissful' Stephen Fry A novel of 'pure delight' (Claire Tomalin) by the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he 'urinates f ...Show more
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
$27.98 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
Drivers Seat by Muriel Spark
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional exper ...Show more
Memento Mori by Alan (EDT) Muriel; Taylor Spark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Described by David Lodge as `her first masterpiece', Memento Mori opens with a telephone call and the words `Remember you must die'. Over several months, a circle of elderly men and women receive similar calls and everyone becomes a suspect. As the investigating police inspector muses: `Death, when it a ...Show more
Memento Mori: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler; Guy Trebay (Contribution by); Muriel Spark (Afterword by)
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to her prize winning book Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, and moments (conversation ...Show more
Robinson by Alan (EDT) Muriel; Taylor Spark
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Spark's Europe by Muriel Spark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Bachelors by Muriel Spark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
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. 'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. T ...Show more
The Bachelors by Alan (EDT) Muriel; Taylor Spark
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The Collected Muriel Spark Novels