Thanks so, so, SO much for all your contributions to Muriel Spark Reading Week – it’s been such fun, and exceeded the highest hopes that Harriet and I held. I’m especially thrilled for those people who discovered Dame Muriel for the first time, and loved her. Harriet has already posted a round-up, but I thought I’d do one here too, for handy reference. We were SO close to covering all her novels – just The Mandelbaum Gate left out. [EDIT: Thanks Christine, we’ve now done them ALL!] I’ve not included links to more general posts about Spark (although they were great!) so here are links to reviews of her novels and other books. Enjoy!
(I don’t have Google Reader or anything like that, so it’s entirely possible that I’ve missed your review – do let me know, and I’ll add it to the links below!)
The Novels
The Comforters (1957)
Travellin’ Penguin
Robinson (1958)
Bibliolathas
A Penguin A Week
Vapour Trail
Memento Mori (1959)
Bibliolathas
CurrerBell
A Girl Walks into a Bookstore
Gudron’s Tights
A Penguin A Week
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
The Book Trunk
The Only Way Is Reading
Stuck-in-a-Book
The Bachelors (1960)
Behind The Willows
Page Plucker
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
An Adventure in Reading
Book Snob
Excelsior
Harriet Devine
Heaven-Ali
The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
Miss Bibliophile
The Book Trunk
Gaskella
Iris on Books
Park Benches & Bookends
A Work in Progress
The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
The Book Trunk
The Public Image (1968)
Page Plucker
The Driver’s Seat (1970)
An Adventure in Reading
Harriet Devine
The Literary Stew
Page Plucker
Somewhere Boy
A Tale of Three Cities
Not to Disturb (1971)
Literature Frenzy!
The Hothouse by the East River (1973)
The Books of Life
Seagreen Reader
The Abbess of Crewe (1974)
Behind the Willows
Our Vicar’s Wife
Page Plucker
Stuck-in-a-Book
The Takeover (1976)
My Porch
Stuck-in-a-Book
Territorial Rights (1979)
Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
Desperate Reader
A Girl Walks into a Bookstore
Morgana’s Cat
Loitering with Intent (1981)
Behind the Willows
The Captive Reader
Ciao Domenica
Laura’s Musings
Our Vicar’s Wife
Page Plucker
The Only Problem (1984)
Stuck-in-a-Book
Tales From The Reading Room
A Far Cry From Kensington (1988)
Harriet Devine
His Futile Occupations
A Reader’s Footprints
Roses Over A Cottage Door
Semi-Fictional
Silencing the Bell
La Vicomtesse
Winston’s Dad
Symposium (1990)
An Adventure in Reading
Our Vicar’s Wife
Reality and Dreams (1996)
Fleur Fisher
Our Vicar’s Wife
Aiding and Abetting (2000)
A Girl Walks Into A Bookstore
The Finishing School (2004)
Harriet Devine
Iris on Books
Our Vicar’s Wife
Silencing the Bell
Somewhere Boy
Tales From The Reading Room
Non-novels and Miscellaneous
Emily Brontё: Her Life and Work (1953)
I Prefer Reading
The Go-Away Bird (1958)
Vapour Trail
Curriculum Vitae (autobiography) (1992)
Somewhere Boy
Stuck-in-a-Book
Complete Short Stories
Desperate Reader
And if you can speak Dutch… several reviews etc. at Leen Huet’s blog!