Join us for our A Season Of book club, in which we’ll spend several splendid months discussing books by a single author, or reading one lengthy work in smaller bites. This will be a friendly, informal, non-academic chat, and everyone is welcome to join us. For the next few months we’ll be discussing the work of twentieth-century Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Muriel Spark. February’s novel is Memento Mori.

This meeting will take place virtually via Zoom. If you’d like to join in the online chat, PLEASE RSVP becky@malvernbooks.com with “season of book club” in the subject line. The book can be purchased via our online store or at Malvern Books. (Call us on 512-322-2097 if you’d prefer curbside pick up.) We offer a 10% discount in-store on all current book club titles.

Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age.

In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.

“This funny and macabre book has delighted me as much as any novel that I have read since the war.” —Graham Greene

“Acidly funny: a marvelously crafted, tautly written novel.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was a prolific poet, short story writer, essayist, and novelist. She was best known for the satire and artistry of her audacious fictions (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, and The Comforters amongst them). Spark was educated in Edinburgh and later spent some years in Rhodesia. She returned to Great Britain during World War II and wrote propaganda for the Foreign Office. She served as general secretary of the Poetry Society and editor of The Poetry Review from 1947–49. She received numerous awards for her writing, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965, and became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

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