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A Point of View by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories | 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
A Point of View by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non 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
$24.99 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: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: 16
âe~One stupendous starburst of wild brillianceâe(tm) SIMON SCHAMA âe~Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilizationâe(tm) J. M. COETZEE Organized from A through Z, and containing over 100 essays, Cultural Amnesia is the ultimate guide to the twentieth century. âe~This is a beautiful ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of my Time by Clive James
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the forty years it took me to write this book, I only gradually realized that the finished work, if it were going to be true to the pattern of my experience, would have no pattern... The book I wanted to write had its origins in the books I was reading. Several times, in my early days, I had to sell ...Show more
Falling Towards England: Unreliable Memoirs Book 2 by Clive James
$24.99 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
$32.99 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature/Quotations | 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