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Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain 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's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$21.62 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
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 Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two by Clive James
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
Volume Two of The Complete Unreliable Memoirs collects together the final two books in Clive James' autobiographical series: North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity.
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
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 Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
$26.93 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James exp ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
$26.93 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inju ...Show more
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