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Clive James
Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Philip Larkin.
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In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget.
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Clive James the essayist and cultural critic at his brilliant best – a dizzyingly erudite tour of twentieth-century culture.
Clive James,Dante Alighieri
Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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The first three volumes of Clive James’s brilliantly sharp and outrageously funny autobiography …
The first three volumes of the critically-acclaimed, miillion copy best-selling memoir series from the inimitable Clive Jamesl - a hilarious and poignant account of a truly extraordinary life
The final two volumes of the critically-acclaimed, miillion copy best-selling memoir series from the inimitable Clive James - a hilarious and poignant account of a truly extraordinary life
The “technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems” (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume.
The first volume of Clive James’s autobiography. With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke.
A meditation on death and life from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
The fifth volume of Clive James’s memoirs - Clive James on TV in book form.
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Sentenced to Life was critically acclaimed on publication and went on to be the bestselling original poetry collection in the UK in 2015. Now available in paperback for the first…
Robin Dalton
The author’s story of her childhood, a secure and magic place surrounded by eccentric aunts and uncles, and an army of guests and hangers-on sharing a sprawling, disorderly house in…
James P. Lawford
Clive, Proconsul of India (1976) examines the life of the man held by many to be one of the main originators of European imperialism in Asia in the eighteenth century…
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Harry Lime
Clive James AO CBE FRSL, born on 7th October 1939, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia, was a critic, broadcaster, author, essayist, and poet who lived and worked in the UK…
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Clive Gifford
Filled with over 100 exciting puzzles and quizzes for you to enjoy with friends, family or just by yourself!
Filled with over 150 exciting puzzles and quizzes for you to enjoy with friends, family or just by yourself!
Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James’s essays, selected from thirty years of spellbinding prose.
Lonely Planet Kids
Blast off into the cosmos as we explore the ultimate vehicles: spaceships. Featuring illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock, this book shows how rockets launch, how we got to the Moon…
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Lonely Planet Kids,Clive Gifford
The latest in our How… series takes to the waves to reveal the wonders of ships, boats and ferries and answers the questions of how they do what they do…
Featuring the stunning illustrations of James Gulliver Hancock, Lonely Planet Kids’ How Everything Works will take a close-up look at the world around us to examine well-known, everyday environments and…
From the fastest to the longest, the oldest to the newest, through tunnels and up mountains, take a fascinating ride through the world of trains in this brilliant new book…
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Lonely Planet Kids,Tom Cornell,Clive Gifford
Where does luggage go after check in? What happens in the control tower? How do planes actually fly? This interactive, lift-the-flap book takes you behind-the-scenes to uncover the hidden secrets…
A selection of poems from one of Britain’s best-loved writers.
A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States.
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The further thoughts of Clive James.
Verse with all the vivid invention of Clive James’s unique prose style, combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is equally and entirely his own …
Clive James’s second book of criticism, with an introduction by the author.
A humorous fictional novel from poet and TV critic Clive James.
TV criticisms from the British Press Critic of the Year, 1981.
‘The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist’ - Alfred Polgar
James presents the prequel to his celebrated Cultural Amnesia –49 essays that form a cultural education in one brilliant volume.
The first volume of Clive James’s autobiography.
In this deracinated age appears a miraculous epic that pays homage to Dante and Camus.
A dazzling collection of essays from renowned polymath Clive James.
The first book from bestselling literary critic, author and television and radio presenter Clive James CBE, reissued with a set of self-critical humorous footnotes
The third instalment of Clive James’ autobiography.
The fourth volume of Clive James’s bestselling memoirs.
Even as We Speak is an illuminating and hilarious collection of essays by one of Britain’s most beloved authors.
Filled with Clive James’s typical wit, warmth, erudition and enthusiasm, this is a brilliant and original tribute to one of his great literary loves, Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du…
There is an inevitable sadness to this moving collection. This being James, there are also moments of zinging energy and a sense of fun…James will remain in the present tense…
The technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume.
Clive James is more or less the only living poet who manages to be both entertaining and moving. -Edward Mendelson
I can’t remember when I’ve learned as much from something I’ve read-or laughed as much while doing it. -Jacob Weisberg, Slate
A generous helping of [James’s] very best, guaranteed to lift the spirit and raise the eyebrow. -Billy Collins
