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I claimed that this was no challenge at all, so I'll back that up: 30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
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Day 30:Memento Mori - Muriel Spark (read 2024)

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L'ÚNIC PROBLEMA de Muriel Spark traduït per Míriam Cano llibre ben destacat al racó #MurielSpark de La Central

#lúnicproblema #llibreries
#narrativeslabreu #llibreslabreu

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Day29/30

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📞 Remember you must die.
I think it’s her best novel.
Spooky & funny.

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#murielspark (01/02/1918 - 2006)

#botd

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no s'avorria mai, però per no avorrir-se havia de dir una doble vida" ✒ avui faria anys una de les nostres autores preferides #MurielSpark nascuda l'1 de febrer de 1918

a LaBreu hi trobareu LA PLENITUD DE LA SRTA BRODIE trad Ferran Ràfols i L'ÚNIC PROBLEMA trad Mirí Cano

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Book cover. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Book cover. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Author photo. Muriel Spark

Author photo. Muriel Spark

“One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

#botd #murielspark #books #literature

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The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark The gloriously off-kilter world of Muriel Spark continues to be a source of fascination for me. I loved this novella, especially the first half. It’s wonderfully dark and twisted, characteristicall…

From the archive for Muriel Spark, #BornOnThisDay in 1918, my thoughts on THE BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE.

A young man’s arrival in Peckham wreaks havoc on the community, disturbing residents’ lives in the most insidious of ways! #MurielSpark #BOTD #BookSky 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2020/05/22/t...

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it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

- Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means
born on this day, 1918

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"I have a great desire to make people smile—not laugh, but smile. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth."

#MurielSpark, Scottish author ("The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"), was #BOTD 1 February 1918. #Literature

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This featured an unpublished (at the time) work by Muriel Spark. This was the first and only issue. The design is by Alix Cox - director of Sid and Nancy and a couple of Clash projects

This is copy 1 of a limited print run of 50

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This featured an unpublished (at the time) work by Muriel Spark. This was the first and only issue. The design is by Alix Cox - director of Sid and Nancy and a couple of Clash projects

This is copy 1 of a limited print run of 50

#AlasdairGray

#MurielSpark

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It was through the Rees/Robertson connection that I was able to acquire the author-corrected proofs and typescript of James Kelman's A Dissafection and The Burn - again, to be discussed at some future point

#AlasdairGray

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Muriel Spark – The Public Image (1968). Booker-shortlisted novel. An actress obsesses over her public image above all else. She has a loveless marriage and her jealous husband finds an extreme way to ruin her career. Intriguing and sharply satirical, but somehow oddly unlikeable. #MurielSpark

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The Very Fine Clock by Muriel Spark
Four original illustrations

Fine Lines of Influence: The Very Fine Clock by Muriel Spark and Edward Gorey attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2025/10/fine-l… #EdwardGorey #MurielSpark

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Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

#CoverReveal : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April.

#books #livres #MurielSpark #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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Muriel Spark über den Tod ihrer geliebten Katze Bluebell.

#MurielSpark #Katze #Cat

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#BookSky #Writer #MurielSpark #Life #Work #ColinBurrow

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★★★★★ #FrancesWilson ELECTRIC SPARK - THE ENIGMA OF #MURIELSPARK - Frances Wilson employs her full artistic power to keep pace with Spark’s fantastic and fugitive life - review by Claudia Bull @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/france...

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark: A sharp study of a very imperfect teacher.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark: A sharp study of a very imperfect teacher. YouTube video by Reading with Intent

My vlog review of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark. Sharp and witty, the novel challeges the reader to make sense of the very problematic title character. It's excellent, BTW.
#murielspark #fiction #maggiesmith
youtu.be/njpJWfv365w?...

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OUT NOW!

Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark ⁠

Listen here:

foxedquarterly.com/the-slightly-foxed-podcast-all-episodes

#podcast #murielspark #bookish

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Thoroughly enjoying this. A precursor to a chronological reading of the 22 novels. #MurielSpark

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Intentions suspectes de Muriel Spark - " Quel bonheur d'être une artiste et une femme au vingtième siècle ", se réjouit Fleur Talbot. Écrivaine, elle flâne dans les rues de Londres, avec

[PARUTION - 12/06/2025 - 1ere éd. 1981 (anglais)] « À la frontière entre le burlesque et la tragédie, ce récit surprenant décrit avec subtilité le Londres d'après guerre, libéré mais encore sous le joug des vieilles coutumes guindées. » www.lisez.com/livres/inten...

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The Bachelors by Muriel Spark, c1960. 3 men on the cover wear fedoras and a bowler hat, suits and ties.

The Bachelors by Muriel Spark, c1960. 3 men on the cover wear fedoras and a bowler hat, suits and ties.

Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym wrote novels set in mid-century London. When I tried to imagine their characters living in the same universe, I decided Pym's characters in The Sweet Dove Died were cynical enough to be in Spark's The Bachelors. #MurielSpark #BarbaraPym #Books

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‘Vital, witty, formidably blithe’: Ali Smith on Muriel Spark at 100 Spark shone a light on her times, and ours. In the week of her centenary, her fellow Scottish novelist celebrates a writer who gave us the gift of the future

I think that authors’ ghosts creep back
Nightly to haunt the sleeping shelves
And find the books they wrote.
Those authors put final, semi-final touches,
Sometimes whole paragraphs.

#MurielSpark Authors’ Ghosts

Full poem in this excellent piece by Ali Smith from 2018

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Cover of Virago Classics edition of A Far Cry From Kensington

Cover of Virago Classics edition of A Far Cry From Kensington

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians

#MurielSpark #AFarCryFromKensington

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Electric Spark: Frances Wilson's new biography looks into a local author who once lived very close to our bookshop, the great Muriel Spark.

Out now from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #MurielSpark

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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel The Enigma of Dame Muriel

Can not wait for Frances Wilson's new treatment of Muriel Spark! Out in September, but you can pre-order from our Bookshop link.

bookshop.org/a/1095/97803...
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Dijous 22, club de lectura de LA PLENITUD DE LA SENYORETA BRODIE de #MurielSpark a Llibreria Finestres
traducció de Ferran Ràfols

més informació a: www.llibreriafinestres.com/evento/servi...

#laintrusa #srtabrodie #lectura

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Died #otd Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish novelist, 19 years ago today #MurielSpark life story...

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“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
(The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)

#Poetry: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/muriel...

✒️ Dame #MurielSpark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic, passed away #OTD 13 April 2006. #Literature

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