Muriel Spark

Extracts from a review of Muriel Spark’s work by Ali Smith:

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way back when
Dido
a little love
Campaigner: NHS patient safety reforms are ‘a disaster’
Well, look
braw
Nora
William and Austin take flight!
Not Cary Grant!
On the way to Fairy Hill
St. Mark’s Basilica [waking up in Venice]
cantilever
The discoverer of Neptune
For FREQUENCY TEST and SOUND DEMONSTRATION
Whalers graves
The Yew avenue to Rosneath castle [1892]
Bonnie Airlie
Harborne Hall hands
a spark of radium
[3] The concept of Time
[2] The concept of Time
[1] The concept of Time
Long journey back
Relations of the Sciences
Fair scunnert
Saturday bookshelf
Top of the Pops
It really cleans as well!
The people of Neverland
INTER-RAIL [Europe by Train]
Tamrawer
Any curious Antiquary
backwardness
What’s right and wrong
a bridge
Sheriffmuir Inn
‘Postage insufficient’
“As a government we interpreted those requests too narrowly”
“Officials suggested against”
Rab Wilson
Squint
Tallest Tomb in England
Didelphidae
Hollow ring to it
They fell for us
Kodak adverts
An eccentric gardener
A dialogue with solitude
TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS
‘Covid-era messages were deleted’
‘Does not augur well’
The Scottish Government WhatsApp controversy
QUESTIONS in CAMERA
made by Kodak
Box, filled with finest sweets
Sanctum Sanctorum [Broken Clock room]
Duty of Candour: The Scottish Government
DELETE ALL
Bonfire [of WhatsApp messages]
Lived and Died in a Mausoleum
‘Strange advert’
Expert says . . .
Tired feet
MD
CLEARANCE DAYS
‘Everyone is at war’
OUR TOWN
Smash Hits
2 years late
“The whole thing is a pyramid”
ABRACADABRA
‘There must be no hiding place for those in decision-making’
MADCAP
‘Fell downstairs backwards’
“WHO SHOULD SELL POISONS?”
Art for Art’s sake
Yet again the Scottish Government fails to be transparent
Fashionably, mathematically and scientifically correct.
Information OVERLOAD
out there
Bridge of Allan: Well House restoration project
Branklyn Garden
Mice nibble away notes!
The many sponsorship opportunities provided by the Royal College of General Practitioners
translucent
‘Preliminary’
Rainbow slides
Conflict and antagonism within global psychiatry
Dr Peter Brunt
Lloyd Cole
this year’s crop
two ragged soldiers
Elixr
The ABPI code ‘did not apply here’
The gate to Abergeldy
ABANDONED
Minding the Past
Bannockburn House Garden
Lola Montes
Imperial College London: a response from the Research Integrity Officer
New Beginnings
Peter Gordon unlimited
stars were born
A Spartacus moment for public health physicians?
Wayfarer Raincoat
Betty Anderson cut down
Heart of Darkness
dead sure
The “manager himself”
White ivory had been replaced
postscriptum
an idea
Screaming mouth
How many bite the hand that feeds them?
Now over ONE MILLION
Group bullying
Béatrice
poetic fragments scattered in the streets
Scotland and Tonga
Röntgen
Rapid response
Unethical pharmaceutical marketing: a common problem requiring collective responsibility
weakness
Wrap-around advertising
“Would be difficult to navigate and impossible to regulate”
Sixty seconds on . . . movie credits
Living with uncertainty
sticks + stones
Enter your answer here
Uncle Feedle’s fourth kind of vision
Love catch these fragments:
some kind of poem
“the heathery knows”
On the values of trust and kindness
from our own weakness
kindness
The other me
Clock delinquency
Deborah Levy
no more to her
Not a true picture.
Poems on the Carron valley
“How are you getting on with that abandoned farm you bought?”
“We strive to uphold everyday”
our stories about the world
rest assured
a portrait
Peter on sunshine
Consultation on Sunshine legislation
“Psychedelic drugs could soon treat alcoholism”

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