Muriel Spark 
Symposium 

‚The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent – the cr me de la cr me.‘ Ian Rankin One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying ‚the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)‘ and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment.With an introduction by Ian Rankin.Symposium is Muriel Spark – one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and author of classics including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – at her wicked best. ‚A rich, heady, disturbing brew.‘ Lorna Sage’Extremely clever and highly entertaining.‘ Penelope Lively’Stiletto-sharp fiction.‘ Alan Taylor, Scotland on Sunday