The 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 …

She thought: there will have to be a terrible justice blowing all over the world to avenge all
the needless suffering [...] It will take a long time to change this, she thought, we learn very …

The Muriel Spark archive, split across several institutions, has prompted new and insightful
criticism on Spark and her work, but no one has yet used the archive to construct a portrait of …

This essay aims to explore one of Muriel Spark's lesser-known short stories,“The Playhouse
Called Remarkable”, a formally and thematically ingenious and ambiguous narrative. The …

Abstract Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat is a radical metafictional experiment, suggesting
the inexorable connections between contingency and a predetermined plot which are so …

Although she is better known as a novelist, Muriel Spark published over forty short stories
between 1951 and 2000, achieving critical acclaim for her work within the genre years …

Hannah Arendt and Muriel Spark missed each other by just one day in Jerusalem in the
June of 1961. Spark attended the Eichmann trial between 26 and 28 June for the Observer …

Starting from a brief examination of Muriel Spark's position as a Scottish novelist within the
framework of her anti-essentialist, anti-authoritative aesthetics, my essay will take a …

When I told a colleague of mine I had read all twenty-two of Muriel Spark's novels he was
surprised to learn there were so many and said smartly,'They can't all be good.'They are …

Concentrating on an early period in her fiction-writing career (1953-73), this thesis offers a
reassessment of the fiction and critical reception of Muriel Spark. It presents her …