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The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The 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 research into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder."
The Comforters by Muriel Spark
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit. Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. She has an unusual problem - she realises she i ...Show more
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'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 of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, t ...Show more
The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontes, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first Ne ...Show more
The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark; Gabriel Josopovici (Introduction by); Alan Taylor (Series edited by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Collected Muriel Spark Novels Ser.
1961. While on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, English teacher Barbara Vaughan becomes intent on joining her archaeologist fiance Harry, who is working on the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ignoring warnings not to cross the Mandelbaum Gate - the boundary between Israel and Jordan and the division between ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm ho ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
$13.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more