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  • The Metropolitan Critic

    by Clive James ...
    Cultural criticism at its best, The Metropolitan Critic sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James mix high and pop culture commentary – from Tom Wolfe to Tom and Jerry, from Seamus Heaney to Oz magazine.In 1974, The Metropolitan Critic started a new trend in cultural comment which has since become an orthodoxy. The young Clive James was the first journalist in London to talk about high culture ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Brilliant Creatures

    by Clive James ...
    **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 Times**Lancelot Windhover used to be famous, but that was a long, long time ago. And so now, when his extramarital affair is on the path to becoming a subject for the gossip columns, it is at least some ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • North Face of Soho

    More Unreliable Memoirs

    by Clive James ...
    Series Book 4 - Unreliable Memoirs
    **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 Times**It is 1968. Newly married, dressed in the style of the times ('a frenzy of bad judgement'), Clive James is leaving the cloistered world of Cambridge academia and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Fantasy

    A True Jamaican Living

    by Clive James ...
    Step into the heart of Jamaica through the eyes of someone who lived its stories, traditions, struggles, and triumphs firsthand.The Fantasy: A True Jamaican Living is a powerful memoir by Clive James that captures the essence of growing up in Portland, Jamaica. From childhood adventures and family traditions to the rhythms of reggae and dancehall, the book paints a vivid picture of Jamaican ... Read more

    $18.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unreliable Memoirs

    Picador Classic

    by Clive James ...
    Series Book 1 - Unreliable Memoirs
    **The first instalment of his famed autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the life of the author, broadcaster, critic and poet, Clive James.'It is one of the most tender, frank and, above all, funny accounts of growing up I have ever read' –Michael Parkinson**In the first instalment of James's memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    A Bingewatcher's Notebook

    by Clive James ...
    "A loving and breezy set of essays" on today's most addictive TV shows from "an incisive and hilarious critic" ( Slate).Television is not what it once was. Award-winning author and critic Clive James spent decades covering the medium, and witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched.Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Latest Readings

    by Clive James ...
    "[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, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his Cambridge house, where he would ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

    by Clive James ...
    The Complete Unreliable Memoirs features all five volumes of Clive James's memoirs in one ebook omnibus. Including Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week was in June, North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity.Unreliable Memoirs:In the first instalment of Clive James’s memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of Recognition

    Essays 2001-2005

    by Clive James ...
    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 Sopranos and The West Wing, or lamenting the decline of Formula One, Clive James writes with style and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • At the Pillars of Hercules

    by Clive James ...
    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 Soho pub that was long the regular haunt of literary Londoners, this collection sees James discuss ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Visions Before Midnight

    by Clive James ...
    **A hilarious time-capsule of 1970s television, Visions Before Midnight is the first collection of Clive James's much-loved, inimitable columns skewering the entertainment of the day.'One of the few columnists who makes you laugh aloud' – Melvyn Bragg, Sunday Times**Clive James is the man who made TV criticism an entertainment in its own right, paving the way for writers like Charlie Brooker. His ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Reliable Essays

    The Best of Clive James

    by Clive James ...
    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 arts, politics or culture, Clive James opens up new avenues for thought whilst never being less than ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD