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Play All - A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
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
Poetry Notebook (2006-2014) by Clive James
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
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
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
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
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: Poetry and Drama
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
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
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
34.99 AUD
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
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
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
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Category: Poetry and Drama
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 Fire of Joy - Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud (HB) by Clive James
44.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each. The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebrati ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
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Category: Poetry and Drama
'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