Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel Science_Gift_Guide culture journalist Ashley Spencer offers

culture journalist Ashley Spencer offers the inside story of the heyday of TV’s House of Mouse

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can’t-miss story of American democracy is the “indispensable book we need right now” (Senator Raphael Warnock)

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel Science_Gift_Guide culture journalist Ashley Spencer offersFinalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Short listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction The award winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century. Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is, said Muriel Spark. Muriel Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed