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

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t a k i n g T H E i n s i d e O U T S I D E
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High Dalblair
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COREHOUSE
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True father of cinema
TO HIS LOVE
See/Saw
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‘lacrimae rerum’
Alexander Marr
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Return to the seed
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The Henroost
Fothringham Hill
I woke up in the night
Volunteer
‘HALKID’
Muppet Movie
little by little
NEWE
‘Doctors should register financial interests’
The Pineapple
Polmaise Castle Garden
“Everyone’s got mental-health stuff”
“And that had led to them talking about social media”
‘Told us much’
A recent article in the TIMES
near my dear home there’s a garden
A sleepy hollow
As inaccessible as the horizon
Most of the time I’m lost
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‘The sweetest and most lasting of perfumes’
‘A NEW WORD’
‘The latest estimate’
A letter to Dr Flaxman
Site of Core Stanes
VANDAL
Tamrawer
Volunteer gardener
BIG BRAND NAMES
Hunimundias
in other words
Coloured wrap
Choose to challenge
Only One Home
AH, UM, AH, ER
being here and now and together
A high summer garden
A new generation of gardeners
‘The New Wonder of Edinburgh’
Patrick’s garden
21 Island Street
Tuppeny Roll
Yesterday
Who owns the land?
Public Health Paper No 34.
Platform 11
Outside medicine he was a keen gardener
Ducks are a-dabbling
Your Inner Hedgehog
The making of the future
Pulverising Mill
Early Days
More of a journey than a gateway
Medal and Trophy production
Novel approach to pandemic
LIGHT #3
LIGHT #2
LIGHT #1

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