An open international competition is seeking an artist for a new £100,000 memorial to Dame Muriel Spark in Edinburgh’s East ...

Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident someone picks up one of these pens … I throw that pen out the window. I ...

Kirsty Wark celebrates the life and work of Dame Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and one of the 20th ...

A competition has been launched to find an artist to create a permanent public artwork celebrating the life and legacy of ...

Creativity, Design and the Building of a New Class Consciousness by CG Beck (Monthly Review Press) Architects have ...

On the announcement of a competition for a memorial to Muriel Spark in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens, Herald columnist Rosemary ...

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Coming just four years after the cloth edition of Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories, which introduced readers to 10 new Spark tales, this collection tacks ...

Over the centuries, countless literary greats have been inspired by the Scottish capital. In winter, when the cobblestones ...

Technically, they identify as “post-punk lit rockers”, having spent formative years in 1980s London. But in imagination at ...

Where does Arundhati Roy, a Booker-prizewinning author and activist, get her fiercely independent streak? The clue is in the title.