Among the novels by Muriel Spark are The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Girls of Slender Means and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Bom in Edinburgh, she spent some time in Central Africa, but now lives and writes in Italy. Her work is published in 20 different languages. She talks to Frank Delaney with two young novelists whose work she admires, Harriet Waugh and A. N. Wilson.