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Inflamed by Sparks
Muriel Spark is one of the most collectable of contemporary writers. Critical studies, essays, poems, novels, short stories – all glitter with her signature wit and energy. At the age of eighty-five...
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Fireworks explode over Brighton on the cover of this handsome book from the New York publisher New Directions. An appropriately revelatory image perhaps, given that most readers know Spark from her...
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The Influences of my School Days
‘What were the main influences of your school days, Sister Helena? Were they literary or political or personal? Was it Calvinism?’ Sandy said: ‘There was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime.’ I arrived in...
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Writing Young
To claim Spark as a ‘Scottish writer’ tells only part of the truth. Much of Spark’s writing follows in the tradition of Hogg, Scott and Stevenson and some of her work shares the bitter, mordant...
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A Cheeky Wee Book
Michael Lister As far as primers, literary guides or introductions go, this ‘critical caper’ belongs in a class of its own. Contrived to introduce to a new, younger generation the delights of Spark’s...
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