The Muriel Spark Society: October 2025

Friday, October 03, 2025

Frances Wilson's Electric Spark has been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The winner of the £50,000 award will be announced on November 4.

Welcome to the Muriel Spark Society Web Log

The Society was founded in 2001, with Dame Muriel's personal approval and blessing. She was particularly happy to know that this is based in Edinburgh - which she termed 'her own city'.

The purpose of the Society is to promote the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of Muriel Spark's work, and to provide opportunities to meet, discuss her work and learn more about her wide range of interests including art, music and fashion.

The committee organises a varied programme of events, including talks by eminent speakers, and an annual lunch in January or February to commemorate Dame Muriel's birthday.

To join: email our Membership Secretary Elizabeth Pearson eapearson468@gmail.com

Muriel Spark Bibliography

Novels
1957 The Comforters
1958 Robinson
1959 Memento Mori
1960 The Ballad of Peckham Rye
1960 The Bachelors
1961 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1963 The Girls of Slender Means
1965 The Mandelbaum Gate
1968 The Public Image
1970 The Driver’s Seat
1971 Not to Disturb
1973 The Hothouse by East River
1974 The Abbess of Crewe
1976 The Takeover
1979 Territorial Rights
1981 Loitering with Intent
1984 The Only Problem
1988 A Far Cry from Kensington
1990 Symposium
1996 Reality and Dreams
2000 Aiding and Abetting
2004 The Finishing School

Short Stories
1958 The Go-Away Bird
1961 Voices at Play (short stories and plays)
1967 Collected Stories
1982 Bang-bang You’re Dead
2001 Complete Short StoriesPoetry
1952 The Fanfarlo and Other Verse
1967 Collected Poems
1982 Going up to Sotheby’s
2004 All the Poems

Other Works
1950 Tribute to Wordsworth (ed Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford)
1951 Child of Light (a study of Mary Shelley)
1952 Selected Poems of Emily Bronte (ed Muriel Spark)
1953 John Masefield (a biography)
1953 My Best Mary(selected letters of Mary Shelley, ed Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford)
1954 The Bronte Letters
1957 Letters of John Henry Newman
(ed Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford)
1963
The Golden Fleece (essays, ed Penelope Jardine 2014

Doctors of Philosophy (play)
1992 Curriculum Vitae (autobiography)

Friday, October 03, 2025

Electric Spark shortlisted!