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Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James by Clive James 9781447241041
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.58Hilarious 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... -
Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.72The 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 Divine Comedy by Clive James
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97'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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Collecting 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... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35From 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,... -
The River in the Sky by Clive James
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A 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... -
Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.85Always 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... -
May Week Was In June by Clive James
Booksplease Price: $12.89It 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93A 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... -
Sentenced to Life: Poems by Clive James 9781631491726
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.45Spanning 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 Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In 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... -
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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 9781447275480 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.75The 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... -
Even As We Speak: Criticism by Clive James 9781447262411
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Blending 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... -
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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 9780330264631 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.41'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... -
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Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James 9780330418812 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.10Always 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... -
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.61From 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 Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James 9780330457392
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.77With 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... -
Falling Towards England: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The 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... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60Erudite 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... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Erudite 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.53The 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.55From 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... -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Clive 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... -
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The King's English features a new introduction by Martin... -
The Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet... -
Bartleby And Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of... -
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick... -
On Broadway: More Than Somewhat;Furthermore;take IT Easy by Damon Runyon 9780141184234
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20A collection of the stories of Damon Runyon who presents the 1950s world of guys and dolls on Broadway.About the AuthorDamon Runyon (1884-1946). A journalist and short-story writer, best remembered... -
Dante in English by Eric Griffiths
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66Dante Alighieri created poetry of unparalleled force and beauty that proved influential far beyond the borders of his native Italy and beyond his own time. This new collection brings together... -
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his... -
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he... -
Fatherhood: Stories about being a dad by William McInnes 9780733642319
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55William McInnes, one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart. Fatherhood is about family, about memories of his father and the memories... -
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism Adrian Gill 9781474605175
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.70'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber'A golden writer' Andrew MarrA. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest journalists of our time. This selection of some of his... -
Fatherhood: Stories about being a dad William McInnes 9780733635540
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55William McInnes, one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart. Fatherhood is about family, about memories of his father and the memories... -
A.A. Gill is Further Away by Adrian Gill
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A collection of dazzling travel pieces from SUNDAY TIMES journalist and critic A. A. GILL.From the moment he joined the SUNDAY TIMES, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places - to discover the...