Filter By
Books (381)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Observing Eye: The Sayings of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
Booksplease Price: $23.93The 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... -
Complete Poems: Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark 9781784101244
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62In 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... -
The Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1) by Muriel Spark 9780349014340
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $48.71The first volume of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the most fascinating and well-loved writers of the twentieth century. In 1944, on her return to England after a disastrous marriage in Southern... -
The Bachelors by Muriel Spark
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The 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... -
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by David Herman 9780801895531
RRP: $108.23Booksplease Price: $79.70Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The... -
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITHIn The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of... -
Robinson by Muriel Spark 9780811215183
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.07January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed... -
Symposium Muriel Spark 9781844082476
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme.' Ian RankinOne October evening five London couples gather for a... -
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an introduction by John Lanchester in Penguin... -
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by David Herman 9780801895548
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $64.95Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The... -
The Comforters Muriel Spark 9781844085538
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64'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... -
The Bachelors by Muriel Spark 9781846974298
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He's been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London's bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the 'cleverest... -
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 9780349010342
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Remember 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... -
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions' In the May... -
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling' (Mail on Sunday).Muriel Spark ended was one of the great... -
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 9780811223041
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $18.74In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly... -
Muriel Spark by Bryan Cheyette 9780746309070
RRP: $36.45Booksplease Price: $35.30Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation. Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and... -
Loitering With Intent Muriel Spark 9781844082483
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64A 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... -
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark 9781504054942
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $34.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504054942Author Muriel SparkFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open... -
The Leaf Sweeper Muriel Spark 9781913111625
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913111625Author Muriel SparkFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Galley Beggar PressPublisher... -
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark 9780241752036
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.2490 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Muriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise - heading for the holiday of a... -
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended... -
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark 9781400077397
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077397Author Muriel SparkFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark 9780811223010
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $17.96Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday - in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in the... -
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, heroic, comic and tragic,... -
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard 9780810127913
Booksplease Price: $58.85Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers... -
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark 9780811222990
RRP: $18.53Booksplease Price: $17.75The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do "human... -
Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard 9780393051742
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $52.26Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae,... -
The Complete Short Stories Muriel Spark 9781786890016
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49From 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... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark by Michael Gardiner
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $47.78This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It... -
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark 9780241989128
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'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... -
Aiding and Abetting: A Novel by Muriel Spark 9780385720908
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $23.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720908Author Muriel SparkFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher... -
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9780063459816
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063459816Author Muriel SparkFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9781509843701
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.A tour de force of contemporary Scottish literature, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark is a compelling portrait of a woman's dark quest for... -
Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark 9780811219235
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.75It is no surprise that one of Muriel Spark's most lively and entertaining works would be her own memoir, Curriculum Vitae. Born to a Scottish Jewish father and an English Presbyterian mother, Spark... -
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9781781129241
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.89Muriel Spark's classic novel of the power of loyalty and influence now available in a stunning package that is accessible for all readers. At an Edinburgh school in the 1930s, glamorous,... -
The Public Image: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Annabel 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... -
Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays by Muriel Spark 9781847772466
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $19.03First published by Peter Owen in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte's poems... -
A Far Cry From Kensington Muriel Spark 9780349019581
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel.When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he 'urinates... -
The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark by Ruth Whittaker 9781349049318
Booksplease Price: $90.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349049318Author Ruth WhittakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher...