Muriel Spark Reading Week: Review Round-up

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!