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A Point of View by Clive James
Category: 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
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
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
Category: Poetry
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
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
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
Category: Poetry | 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
The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs Book 5 by Clive James
Category: Memoir | 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
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics
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
Category: Poetry
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
Category: Poetry
'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
The River in the Sky by Clive James
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday Times Clive 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 Inj ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
Category: Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times 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. I ...Show more
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