'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, INDEPENDENT

A Volume of Autobiography. Muriel Sparks's celebrated autobiography has been unavailable since her death in 2006. This new edition adds a Preface by the poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein.

Jean Brodie is a teacher whose unconventional ideas put her at odds with the other members of staff at the Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh, as she endeavours to shape the lives of the select group of girls who form her set .

She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the 'creme de la creme' of Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome.

Presents the story of the girls of a good family.

Muriel Spark's stunning debut novel

This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.

Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best.

* 'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, Independent

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets.

Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance.

Passionately determined to write his novel whilst running College Sunrise, a finishing school for both sexes and mixed nationalities, Rowland Mahler is assisted by his wife, Nina Parker. This term there is a new star pupil - Chris, seventeen, also determined to write his masterpiece.

Muriel Spark was a poet before she was a novelist. The poems here present the range of her poetry. Here are villanelles, ballads and epigrams, as well as freer forms, marked by precise observation and command of her medium. Her poems are witty, idiosyncratic and haunting, transforming the familiar into moments of strangeness.

This collection, which contains all of Muriel Spark's published short stories together with some new writing, portrays all the Spark obsessions, such as ghosts and judges, priests, murder and French chateaux.

Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem.

A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times)