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Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James by Clive James 9781447241041
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.38Hilarious 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... -
The Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time - the greater part of a lifetime - preparing my instruments.' The Divine... -
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Collecting poetry written in the years 2011-2014, Sentenced to Life sees Clive James look back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty.After falling dangerously... -
Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.04The 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:... -
The River in the Sky by Clive James
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A single book-length poem, The River in the Sky sees Clive James face up to his final moments of life with all the wisdom, lightly-worn erudition and good humour that defined his extraordinary career... -
The Remake by Clive James 9781447266884
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78From the author of Cultural Amnesia, beloved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, The Remake is a satirical story of astronomy, celebrity and a certain sort of romance . . .'As sharp as a tack... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54From 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,... -
Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.31Always 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... -
The River in the Sky: A Poem by Clive James
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €22.37"Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time," writes Clive James in his epic... -
The Metropolitan Critic by Clive James 9781447267904
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Cultural 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... -
The Crystal Bucket by Clive James 9781447271451
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78Following Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket is another hilarious time-capsule of 1970s television - the second collection of Clive James's ruthlessly funny, inimitable columns dissecting... -
The Dreaming Swimmer by Clive James 9781447271468
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78Thoughtful and funny, this fifth collection of essays from much-loved critic and author Clive James covers the art, politics and culture of 1987-1992.'A well-balanced show of wit, intellect and... -
At the Pillars of Hercules by Clive James 9781447248842
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78His 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... -
May Week Was In June by Clive James
Booksplease Price: €11.89It 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... -
Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.01A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a... -
The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81In 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... -
Sentenced to Life: Poems by Clive James 9781631491726
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.03In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator)-including "Japanese Maple," which was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim-Clive James looks back over... -
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.63Spanning fifty years of work, Collected Poems sees Clive James make his own rich selection from across his exceptional career in poetry.From his debut collection in 1986 to his dazzling achievements... -
The Book of My Enemy by Clive James 9781447248323
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.66Taking the very best, funniest and most heartfelt of his work from 1958-2003, The Book of My Enemy is the second volume of collected poems from much-loved poet, broadcaster and author of Unreliable... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the... -
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One by Clive James
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Clive James, a true polymath, became a generation-defining voice as a broadcaster, a critic, a poet and an author. Among his greatest achievements, his five hilarious, heartwarming books of... -
Even As We Speak: Criticism by Clive James 9781447262411
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.26Effervescent, 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... -
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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 9781447275480 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €3.46The 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... -
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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 9780330264631 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.23'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.' In Unreliable Memoirs, the first instalment of Clive... -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.31With 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... -
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James 9780330457392
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.55From 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... -
The Meaning of Recognition: Essays 2001-2005 by Clive James 9781447248835
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.26With 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... -
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Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James 9780330418812 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €2.86Always 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... -
Falling Towards England: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The 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... -
Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393346367Author Clive JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 by Clive James 9780393337358
RRP: €19.64Booksplease Price: €18.79Opal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James's poetry to an American audience. Praised after the publication of Cultural Amnesia as one of the finest prose stylists of his generation,... -
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 by Clive James 9781509824571
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Selecting 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... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
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Falling Towards England: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 9780330294379 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.33The 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... -
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North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 9780330481274 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.36From 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... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his... -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James 9781529042085
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his...