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A Point of View by Clive James
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
At the Pillars of Hercules - Non-Fiction1973-1977 by Clive James
25.32 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Book of My Enemy : Collected Verse 1958-2003 by Clive James
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Verse with all the vivid invention of Clive James' unique prose style, combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is equally and entirely his own . . .Following the publication of his 1986 collection, Other Passports, he has emerged as one of the most prominent poets of his generat ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia - Necessary memories from history and the arts by Clive James
59.99 NZD
69.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hun ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia - Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A guide to the twentieth-century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, such as Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of my Time by Clive James
60.00 NZD
Category: 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
Even as We Speak: new essays 1983 - 2001 by Clive James
27.95 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Even As We Speak is an illuminating and hilarious collection of essays by one of Picador's most beloved authors. He focuses on Australian poetry; on television today; on the rise and fall of various icons; on the question of the culpability of the ordinary German in the holocaust; and there is a compell ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
34.99 NZD
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
36.99 NZD
Category: Non-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
May Week Was In June: Unreliable Memoirs 3 by Clive James
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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