{"product_id":"electric-spark-9781526663078","title":"Electric Spark : The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuriel Spark was a puzzle, and so too were her books. She dealt in word games, tricks and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences and spooky events. In Electric Spark , Frances Wilson aims to finally crack her code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe return to Spark’s early years when everything was piled on: divorce, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skulduggery, blackmail, love affairs, revenge and a major religious conversion. If this sounds like a novel by Muriel Spark it is because her experiences of the 1940s and 1950s became, alchemically reduced, the material of her art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Frances Wilson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScotland, Biography: literary, Literary studies: from c 1900 -\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 9 Apr 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Frances Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319783235962,"sku":"9781526663078","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781526663078.jpg?v=1790634348","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/lt\/products\/electric-spark-9781526663078","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}