Muriel Spark

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

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an extraordinary claim
on a trolley
I am not sure what kind of story I am in.
Every step . . .
The Hallmark of Quality and Value
‘Miss Ironside is specialising in life’
The soul and the operator
‘Doctors’ Survey Sparks Campaign’
In Our Orchard
‘His solace, his recreation, his enjoyment’
dismantled me, most wonderfully
a lithe, revelatory debut
sunshine is guid for us all
Bauld Fergusson, lang syne deid
22 years
‘The beginning of an end of an outmoded way of thinking’
Garden Ticket
“It is hard to imagine”?
Linnaeo Posuit
Spending a penny
‘Whistling Willie’, the LION MAN
page 10
APART TOGET H E R
Winter 1967
REBEL POEMS
‘Was exceedingly grand and terrific’
At Drumclog
The Dark Flower
‘ART does not EXIST’
his creative life
The last known portrait of Walter Scott
‘Ya radge orange bampot’
a Nursery manager
Last of Horse Wynd
POINTS OF VIEW.
Edinburgh’s first Theatre
Newspaper boy
‘Were you silent when we died?’
‘Tomb of the Red Lady’
Scattered with derelict concrete boxes
last of a long line
Be ‘more like Paddington’
of Sapiens
‘The truth about coming off antidepressants’
Graffiti
The Drummond Scrolls
Wings ower Outerston
The first architecture on the grand scale to appear in the New Town
Windfall Cooking Apples
Only 2 people at one time
Eagle and Henderson
Frisky Hall
‘He had almost every room in his house decorated to look like the walls of a Roman villa’
At the Thieves Pass
11.18
Alone for 20 years in ruined castle
‘Is our island told in books?’
House of Biscuits
Totarder
Hold Everything Dear
Last of a Landmark
Electricity
Queen’s Park
WHOLESALE Druggists
The REGAL Cinema
The VIKING Cinema
BACKSTAGE
MEADOWS, West.
northern lights
Tommy Bryce
an obituary
Sinclair’s Bay
Glen Elg
Empty libraries
A gifted pioneer
Arborglyphs
In a time before social media influencers
‘Young lady take charge’
Gunner Hope
TRIO
A wing and a prayer
1972: A design for Bannockburn Heritage Centre
‘Vintage note’
Fossil fuel
PIPE Lane
A statue on the north bank of the Clyde
of absence and presence
K13
To call a spade a spade
‘There’s this shadow beside him in the painting’
Published
Glenfruin School house
EPHEMERON [Fig. I]
Dare to be Wise
Farewell
Spelled out in graffiti
Mum’s the word
‘Change is coming’
‘Martin Laird doesn’t do social media’
In the language of Angels
The Crew Ship COLUMBO
Fashion Show
Letters to his gardener
The Owl Man
revolutionary TIME [the language of MUSIC]
the STREET
By late afternoon
Vecchia Bologna
The Well Hoose
Roseneath Peninsula
Rare Species
enablers
BRITAIN’S SIBERIA
Lady Stair’s garden
Where are the notes between the notes?
Thought to be in two places at once
The imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space
umbrellas
Playfair brought light
two poems
EDINburgh ARTS festIVAL
Hospitalfield
Mapping an obsession
K I W A N U K A
Methven Simpson
UPROOTED
We are the Change-Makers
The Dug-Out
Cabbages in an Orchard
bows out
PERMIT to ENTER
Time Passes. Listen. Time Passes
Garden gnomes were heard to shout!
Market instability
Isolation and sleep
Playfair
The only epitaph
black
‘GOOD SPECTACLES’
The beginning of wisdom
REVEL
Full page advert in the BMJ
infinity
reality
the answer
‘Operator’
First do no harm
Ninian’s Gift
Dunblane Cathedral reopens
Don’t let yourself go hungry now

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