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  • The Very Fine Clock

    Illustrated by Edward Gorey ...
    by Muriel Spark ...
    Two stars team up—Muriel Spark and Edward Gorey—to bring the charming tale of Ticky the clock to life in this children’s classic.Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house. When the professor’s friends suggest that Ticky be ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Poems

    by Muriel Spark ...
    In 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 that my outlook on life and my perceptions of events are those of a poet.' Including previously uncollected work, this new edition demonstrates her ear for the rightness of a line and her eye for the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Fleece

    by Muriel Spark ...
    The essays, reviews, memoirs, and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. The Golden Fleece, which takes its title from Spark's first published essay, has four sections—Art & Poetry; Autobiography & Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics & Philosophy—forming a kind of oblique autobiography, an evolving confession of a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aiding and Abetting

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    In Aiding and Abetting*,* the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose.When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildegard Wolf’s Paris office, there is one problem: she already has a patient who says he’s Lucan, the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Pitch Dark

    by Renata Adler, Muriel Spark ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers.“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Mary Shelley

    A Biography

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Painting a portrait of a gothic icon, this biography recounts Mary Shelley's dramatic life, from her youth and turbulent marriage to her career as writer and editor. At the age of 20, Mary Shelley secured her place in history by writing Frankenstein, now acknowledged as one of the great literary classics. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale

    by Muriel Spark ...
    An election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity.This is a satirical fantasy about ecclesiastical and other kinds of politics. The author has also written The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Girls of Slender Means. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Ghosts of Christmas Past

    A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories

    by Neil Gaiman, M. R. James, Jenn Ashworth, E. Nesbit, Louis de Bernières, Muriel Spark, Frank Cowper, E. F. Benson, Bernard Capes, L. P. Hartley, Robert Aickman, Jerome K. Jerome, Kelly Link ...
    A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Robinson (New Directions Classic)

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series series New Directions Classic
    A suspense novel about three castaways marooned on an island owned by an eccentric recluse.January 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 dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Memento Mori

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series Book 347 - Virago Modern Classics
    Remember 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 geriatric feathers are thoroughly ruffled. As the caller's activities become more widespread, old secrets are dusted off, exposing post and present duplicities, self-deception and blackmail. Nobody is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Essence of the Brontës

    A Compilation with Essays

    by Muriel Spark ...
    First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Brontë sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Brontë's poems. Perceptively but unsentimentally, Spark considers the Brontës' lives and works, including their generally disastrous attempts at teaching, and reflects on her own fascination, as a writer and a reader, with Emily Brontë ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Symposium

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series Book 348 - Virago Modern Classics
    'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème.' Ian RankinOne October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying 'the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)' and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD