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A Point of View by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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: Biography
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
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
North Face of Soho by Clive James
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
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
North Face of Soho - More Unreliable Memoirs Book 4 by Clive James
$24.95 AUD
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
Play All - A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
$33.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were--and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columni ...Show more
Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnis ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | 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