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Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | 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 | 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
May Week Was In June: Unreliable Memoirs 3 by Clive James
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | 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
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Category: 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
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: POETRY | Reading Level: very good
In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is trea ...Show more
Sentenced to Life - Poems 2011-2014 by Clive James
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
In the course of his new collection of poems - several of which have already become famous before their book publication - Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all the ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: POETRY | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs Book 5 by Clive James
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
'I was never alone except in the toilet, where I soon found that locking myself into a cubicle was not much protection from hearing myself talked about by young men standing at urinals. ("Jesus, he's looking rough." "And it's only Monday.") Reviews for Clive James's fourth volume of memoirs, North Face ...Show more
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One by Clive James
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Picador Collection
The first three books in Clive James' autobiographical series - Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was In June - are collected here for the first time.The Picador Collection celebrates fifty years of Picador Books. I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbr ...Show more
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two by Clive James
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Picador Collection
Volume Two of The Complete Unreliable Memoirs collects together the final two books in Clive James' autobiographical series: North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity.
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: POETRY
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more