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 thoughts on the matters of the moment. In this volume are presented his original pieces - sixty in total - alongside previously unpublished postscripts.

Read along with Clive as he delves deep into television, Elizabeth Hurley, Harry Potter, the Olympic Games, Snoop Dogg and cane toads - and plenty more besides.

'Irreverent and funny, clever without being cynical and not afraid to flex his wits on anything and everything' - Daily Telegraph

Clive James (1939-2019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His much-loved, influential and hilarious television criticism is available both in individual volumes and collected in Clive James On Television. His encyclopaedic study of culture and politics in the twentieth century, Cultural Amnesia, remains perhaps the definitive embodiment of his wide-ranging talents as a critic.

Praise for Clive James:

'The perfect critic' - A.O. Scott, New York Times

'There can't be many writers of my generation who haven't been heavily influenced by Clive James' - Charlie Brooker

'A wonderfully witty and intelligent writer' - Verity Lambert

About the Author
Clive James was the author of more than forty books. As well as essays, he published collections of literary and television criticism, travel writing, verse and novels, plus five volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week Was In June, North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity. As a television performer he appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the Postcard series of travel documentaries. He published several poetry collections, including the Sunday Times bestseller Sentenced to Life, and a translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. He held honorary doctorates from Sydney University and the University of East Anglia. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013, an Officer of the Order of Australia. He died in 2019.

Reviews
Smart and hilarious . . . this is James at his entertaining best * Daily Express *
Irreverent and funny, clever without being cynical and not afraid to flex his wits on anything and everything * Daily Telegraph *
Warm, witty whiplash prose . . . the talks read as well on the page as they sounded on the radio * Sunday Times *



Book Information
ISBN 9780330534390
Author Clive James
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 250g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 131mm * 24mm