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A Point of View by Clive James
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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: Biography & Memoir
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 by James, Clive
$39.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Three of the sharpest, most brilliant and outrageously funny memoirs you will ever read. In Unreliable Memoirs we meet a very young Clive James. One dressed in shorts. His hilarious adventures growing up in post-war Sydney are deliciously recounted in this, the first volume of his memoirs. Next our h ...Show more
Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Angels Over Elsinore : Collected Verse 2003-2008 by Clive James
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Well-known for his prose, as well as his TV appearances, Clive James has also established a name for himself in the world of poetry. His previous collections, Other Passports and The Book of My Enemy, were critically acclaimed and accomplished, yet simultaneously accessible and entertaining - and his ne ...Show more
Book of My Enemy : Collected Verse 1958-2003 by Clive James
$26.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Clive James Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
$47.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of my Time by Clive James
$60.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
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
$29.95 NZD
Category: Reference
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