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A Point of View by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The BBC Radio 4 series, "A Point of View", has been on the air since 2007. This is the book of the radio series. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters - including the national treasure that is Clive James - talking for ten minutes about anything and everything that has captured their imagina ...Show more
Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | 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
Book of My Enemy : Collected Verse 1958-2003 by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Verse with all the vivid invention of Clive James' unique prose style, combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is equally and entirely his own . . .Following the publication of his 1986 collection, Other Passports, he has emerged as one of the most prominent poets of his generat ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | 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: Memoirs & Biography | 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: Fiction | 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 (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
$18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
North Face of Soho - More Unreliable Memoirs Book 4 by Clive James
$24.95 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so ...Show more
Reliable Essays - The Best of Clive James by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Including Clive James's most memorable pieces - his 'Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell - this book also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, as well as showcasing James's more thoughtful, analyti ...Show more