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Av Clive James
E-bok, 2015
328 kr
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"[A] collection of Clive James''s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death" (The Wall Street Journal). 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, …
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A Bingewatcher's Notebook
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2017
125 kr
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A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screenTelevision and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television …
Falling Towards England
More Unreliable Memoirs
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2008
116 kr
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The second instalment of his famed unreliable memoirs, Falling Towards England sees Clive James set sail for London – a long way from the acclaimed author, poet and broadcaster he would one day become . . .'A comic triumph' – Ian Hamilton, London Review of BooksWaving goodbye to Sydney, Clive James …
May Week Was In June
More Unreliable Memoirs
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2008
185 kr
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It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet and broadcaster.'Nobody writes like Clive James' – SpectatorArriving at Cambridge University in a cold …
Always Unreliable
Memoirs
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2004
250 kr
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Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James – dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With Falling …
Blaze of Obscurity
The TV Years
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2010
116 kr
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In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye.'Clive James is an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as …
Revolt of the Pendulum
Essays 2005-2008
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2010
217 kr
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Wide-ranging, hilarious and enlightening, The Revolt of the Pendulum collects the best of Clive James on art, culture and politics from 2005–2008, showing the author, broadcaster and poet at his dazzling and versatile best. From the rules of grammar to the fundamentals of religion, from the culture …
Cultural Amnesia
Notes in the Margin of My Time
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2008
281 kr
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With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' – Simon …
Falling Towards England
More Unreliable Memoirs
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2009
163 kr
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The second instalment of his famed unreliable memoirs, Falling Towards England sees Clive James set sail for London – a long way from the acclaimed author, poet and broadcaster he would one day become . . .'A comic triumph' – Ian Hamilton, London Review of BooksWaving goodbye to Sydney, Clive James …
May Week Was In June
More Unreliable Memoirs
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2009
163 kr
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It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet and broadcaster.'Nobody writes like Clive James' – SpectatorArriving at Cambridge University in a cold …
North Face of Soho
More Unreliable Memoirs
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2009
179 kr
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From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday TimesIt is 1968. Newly married, dressed in the style of the times ('a …
Reliable Essays
The Best of Clive James
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2009
158 kr
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Hilarious and trenchant, Reliable Essays collects the most memorable works of criticism and travel writing from well-loved author and broadcaster, Clive James. With an introduction by Julian Barnes.'[An] intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit' – ObserverWhether discussing …
North Face of Soho
More Unreliable Memoirs
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2008
206 kr
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From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday TimesIt is 1968. Newly married, dressed in the style of the times ('a …
Revolt of the Pendulum
Essays 2005-2008
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2011
246 kr
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Wide-ranging, hilarious and enlightening, The Revolt of the Pendulum collects the best of Clive James on art, culture and politics from 2005–2008, showing the author, broadcaster and poet at his dazzling and versatile best. From the rules of grammar to the fundamentals of religion, from the culture …
Blaze of Obscurity
The TV Years
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2009
159 kr
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In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye.'Clive James is an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as …
Angels Over Elsinore
Collected Verse 2003-2008
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2011
246 kr
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One of his most accomplished collections, Angels Over Elsinore brings together the finest poetry written between 2003–2008 by Clive James, much-loved broadcaster, poet and author of Unreliable Memoirs.From reminiscences of his Australian childhood and elegies for friends and family, to hilarious …
Even As We Speak
Criticism
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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Effervescent, energetic and eclectic, Even As We Speak collects the best of Clive James on art, culture and politics from 1993–2001. This is one of the late twentieth century's finest minds on show. From the Olympics to the British monarchy to Australian culture, and from icons of the century to …
Opal Sunset
Selected Poems 1958-2008
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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Selecting the very best of his work from over fifty years, Opal Sunset demonstrates Clive James as one of the most versatile and accomplished poets of the past half-century.Whether dealing in the comic set-piece or surreal excursion, or managing serious subject matter with fluency and apparently …
Always Unreliable
Memoirs
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2012
254 kr
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Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James – dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With Falling …
Meaning of Recognition
Essays 2001-2005
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2012
155 kr
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With essays taking the reader from London to Bali, theatre to library and from election campaigns to television, The Meaning of Recognition collects the best of Clive James on art, culture and politics from 2001–2005.Whether analysing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, celebrating The …
At the Pillars of Hercules
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2013
155 kr
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His second book of cultural criticism, At the Pillars of Hercules sees Clive James take on artists from W. H. Auden to Lillian Hellman, and from T. S. Eliot to Norman Mailer, in a collection that confirmed his reputation as a writer of entertaining, insightful essays.Named for a now much-missed …
Point of View
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2012
137 kr
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From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century – from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC Radio 4, providing hilarious and profound …
Opal Sunset
Selected Poems, 1958-2008
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2011
288 kr
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"A generous helping of [James's] very best, guaranteed to lift the spirit and raise the eyebrow."-Billy Collins
The Light as It Grows Dark
The Last Poems of Clive James
Av Clive James
Inbunden, 2026
207 kr
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‘These poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive’ - Financial Times‘Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive’ - A. S. Byatt, Author Of PossessionBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one …
The Light as It Grows Dark
The Last Poems of Clive James
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2026
246 kr
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‘These poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive’ - Financial Times‘Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive’ - A. S. Byatt, Author Of PossessionBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one …
Point of View
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2011
194 kr
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From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century – from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC Radio 4, providing hilarious and profound …
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2012
246 kr
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Collecting verse written in the years 2008–2011, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower sees Clive James approach his later years with the same technical versatility, emotional poignancy and lightly-worn erudition as defined his career.Across a breathtaking range of themes, there are moving elegies, a …
Brilliant Creatures
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2013
123 kr
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The debut novel from much-loved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, Brilliant Creatures is a bold, hilarious satire of the media industry.'Clive James doesn't miss a trick' – The TimesLancelot Windhover used to be famous, but that was a long, long time ago. And so now, when his extramarital …
Snakecharmers In Texas
Av Clive James
E-bok, 2013
123 kr
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Clive James tackles burning issues and shining personalities, from Barry Humphries to Barry Manilow and Michael Jackson to Michael Foot, in Snakecharmers in Texas – his fourth collection of essays, originally written between 1980 and 1987.With his trademark erudition and wise-cracking intelligence …
Reliable Essays
The Best of Clive James
Av Clive James
Häftad, 2013
190 kr
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Hilarious and trenchant, Reliable Essays collects the most memorable works of criticism and travel writing from well-loved author and broadcaster, Clive James. With an introduction by Julian Barnes.'[An] intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit' – ObserverWhether discussing …
