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A Point of View by Clive James
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
A Point of View by Clive James
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
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 - Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | 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: NZ 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
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
North Face of Soho by Clive James
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so ...Show more
North Face of Soho - More Unreliable Memoirs Book 4 by Clive James
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so ...Show more
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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
$21.62 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: General 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