Muriel Spark

Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over the group of 'special girls' at the Marcia Blaine Academy. Each is famous for something and are initiated into a world of adult games and extra-curricular activities they will never forget.

Muriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent times. It tells the acidly funny story of a group of elderly people who start to receive threatening phone calls telling them 'remember, you must die'.

Published to mark Muriel Spark's centenary, these deluxe editions include specially commissioned introductions from some of contemporary literature's leading writers, such as Ian Rankin and Ali Smith.

Actress Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public. To keep the anxious admirers - and the paparazzi - under her spell, her image must be carefully cultivated, but Annabel hasn't taken into account her husband's jealousy at her success.

These deluxe editions of classic novels from Muriel Spark feature specially commissioned introductions from notable contemporary authors, marking Spark's centenary.

In a Kensington hostel towards the end of World War 2, a group of well-bred, but impecunious young women, are leading lives of ritual femininity. All is well until their interlude of innocence is destroyed by the horror of the times.

Geneva. As a ferocious thunderstorm rages outside, behind the locked doors of the library the aristocratic Klopstocks are 'not to be disturbed'. In the attic, Baron Klopstock's lunatic brother rants and raves. But in the staff quarters, all is under control. The butler and servants are makingtheir own preparations for the long night that follows.

Having led a successful, comfortable life, Harvey Gotham retires to the French countryside to pursue bookish obsessions and writing. But when the French police discover his estranged wife's involvement in a terrorist group, suspicion falls on Gotham himself and a series of misfortunes threaten to destroy everything he holds dear.

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 an old land and a new land - she enlists the assistance of British diplomat Freddy Hamilton and Arab contacts. An exotic and extravagant tale of abduction,...

When their plane, bound for the Azores, crashes on a tiny island, January Marlow and her fellow survivors become the unwelcome guests of the island's solitary owner, Robinson.