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A Point of View by Clive James
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: 16
21st century Britain: a point of view from our fiercest and funniest critic The BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View has been on the air since 2007. Clive James was one of the most popular presenters, and now, for the first time, his original pieces -- sixty in total -- and all-new postscripts are collect ...Show more
Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpiec ...Show more
Clive James Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career. Containing over a hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth century culture, cataloguing and exploring the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, art ...Show more
Falling Towards England: Unreliable Memoirs Book 2 by Clive James
18.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
"A comic triumph, full of terrific jokes and brilliantly sustained setpieces" Ian Hamilton, London Review of BooksWhen we last met our hero in Unreliable Memoirs, he had set sail from Sydney Harbour bound for London, fame and fortune. Idealistic and uncompromising, if short on cash, he planned to engage ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Injury Time by Clive James
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Latest Readings by Clive James
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39.95 (17% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In 2010 Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write." James is the award-winni ...Show more
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
May Week Was In June: Unreliable Memoirs 3 by Clive James
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
âe~Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.âe(tm) Falling Towards England âe" the second ...Show more
NEFERTITI IN THE FLAK TOWER by Clive James
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James' power as a poet has increased year by year, and there has been no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower. Here, his polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is merely to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader ...Show more