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Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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
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
Loose Canon: the Extraordinary Songs of Clive James and Pete - Atkin by Ian Shircore; Clive James
$44.95 AUD
Category: Music
'This is the work I'm known least for, but which is closest to my heart' Clive James For the last 50 years, Clive James has been writing remarkable songs - witty, moving, sometimes satirical, often thrillingly poetic - with his musical partner, Pete Atkin. They've written more than 200 together, releasi ...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
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book h ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: Poetry
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. <b><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain</b></i> 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’ ...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
$34.99 AUD
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 Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
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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
The River in the Sky by Clive James
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Category: Poetry
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inju ...Show more
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