Browse by category
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
26.99 AUD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
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
Poetry Notebook 2006-2014 by Clive James
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Fiction SPECIALS | Reading Level: very good
The last ten years has unequivocally demonstrated that Clive James is far more than a mere talking head. Once known as one of the English-speaking world s most popular television personalities, James has gone on to be a celebrated essayist, translator, and poet. The appearance of Poetry Notebook, which ...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 Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Poetry
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
31.50 AUD
34.99 (9% off)
Category: Poetry
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 celebration ...Show more
The Meaning of Recognition : New Essays 2001-2005 by Clive James
6.99 AUD
24.99 (72% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) of many talents, and the essays collected here are testament to that fact. Whether discussing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, he manages t ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
20.99 AUD
21.99 (4% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Unreliable Memoirs
'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.' In the first instalment of Clive James's memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives a ...Show more
0 - 6 of 7