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In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget.

The fifth volume of Clive James's memoirs - Clive James on TV in book form.

A new collection of deeply moving and life-affirming poems from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.

Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs.

A collection of essays, both illuminating and humourous, by Clive James. He focuses on Australian poetry, television, the rise and fall of various icons, the holocaust, the state of culture in the 1990s, and the death of Diana.

Accompanying Clive James's BBC Television series, this book traces how the invention and development of mass communications - press, radio, film and television - has transformed the nature of fame, and how the famous have dealt with that fame.

A collection of the Australian-born writer's TV criticism published in the London Observer during the period between 1979 and 1982. This is a paperback edition of a volume first published by Jonathan Cape in 1983. Clive James' earlier volumes of TV criticism include Visions Before Midnight (1977 & 1981) and The Crystal Bucket (1983). They have been published in a single volume with a new introduction and index as Clive James on Television (1991).

Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from thirty years of prose. Including classic pieces such as Postcard from Rome, and his observations on Margaret Thatcher, it contains funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, while elsewhere showcasing James's more reflective and analytical style.

Corner of cover and spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

`Unreliable Memoirs' part two: the story continues.

The third instalment of Clive James' autobiography.

The first three volumes of Clive James's brilliantly sharp and outrageously funny autobiography . . . schovat popis

'These literary-critical essays are compact with wit and penetration but also have a kind of freshness about them, as if the author has never got over his first rapture of enjoyment at the sheer thisness of poetry and prose. James is in the tradition of Hazlitt, Bagehot, and Desmond MacCarthy, with a gusto worthy to succeed theirs and a philosophy well set out in his own introduction. "Literature", he writes, "says most things itself, when it is allowed to." Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure' John Bayley, Observer 'His outstanding talent is as a cicerone, guiding the ignorant traveller with patience, knowledge and wit round some favourite literary edifice and communicating his own admiration of it to the goggling and fascinated visitor ...the lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Times Literary Supplement 'Mr James is hungry for and not unworthy of engagement with important issues. A collection of dignity and coherence ...tellingly timely' Sunday Times

The fourth volume of Clive James's bestselling memoirs

Paperback edition of a collection of the Australian-born author and critic's travel writing published in the London 'Observer' during the period 1976 to 1983. Countries and cities which receive the witty and satiric James treatment include Sydney, New York, Rome, Paris, Jerusalem, Russia and Japan. First published by Jonathan Cape in 1984.

'His contribution to the art and enjoyment of TV criticism over the past ten years has been immense. His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable.' Thus the judges of the British Press Awards, in naming Clive James Critic of the Year for 1981. The Crystal Bucket offers a further selection of his inimitable 'visions before midnight ...' 'C.J. didn't get where he is today just by being funny. He is humane, liberal and compassionate ... What he writes is always pertinent and always witty ... We own him a deep debt of gratitude.' —Gavin Ewart, Listener 'Few critics have a more unerring ear for woolliness and doubletalk or a more scathing and entertaining way of dealing with it.' —Lesley Garner, Good Housekeeping 'He is one of the most remarkable figures in British cultural life at the moment: a poet and gifted literary critic who is also genuinely liked by the mass audience.' —Michael Mason, London Review of Books 'One of the few columnists who make you laugh aloud ... if there were angels he would be on their side: and that would certainly include Charlie’s Angels.' —Melvyn Bragg, Sunday Times