Dougal Douglas is,... Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981. Would-be novelist ...

Muriel Spark makes notes on one of her novels in 1960 Before he became the best-selling author of the Inspector Rebus novels, Ian Rankin spent three years researching a PhD on one of the Scotland ...

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In adapting Muriel Spark’s novel about an all-female London boarding house, Gabriel Quigley has tried to home in on the ...

In the final episode of their series, Colin and Clare arrive at Muriel Spark, who would never have considered herself a satirist though her writing was as bitingly satirical as any 20th-century ...

"I've spent all my life asking questions... the only important question is why" Jeremy Paxman and Arthur Smith on Leonard ...