Symposium is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published in 1990.

John Mortimer, writing in The Sunday Times, regarded it as one of the best novels of that year.

[1] It is the story of a dinner party and the events leading up to it involving the lives of the five couples attending: The story includes many flashbacks into the lives of the guests including a convent of Marxist nuns, a burglary ring preying on the guests, a mad Scottish uncle and several unexplained deaths.

The dinner party itself ends with the murder of the mother of one of the guests.