In Unreliable Memoirs we meet a very young Clive James. One dressed in shorts. His hilarious adventures growing up in post-war Sydney are deliciously recounted in this, the first volume of his memoirs.
In the closing pages of the last volume, I got married.
continue, 'maybe tomorrow we should do the town and Sea Gypsy Village.' Frank is scribbling on forms. He's trying to balance all the passports on a narrow shelf and his backpack is sliding down over his shoulder, as he grapples with ...
The Blaze of Obscurity: the inside story of his years in television, it shows Clive James on top form.
Having chosen a tall theme, the small man got up on stilts, and stayed elevated for twenty years. Not the least of his heroism was that he could make a single page seem like an eternity. His secret was—we had better say ...
'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to ...
These are the years that formed the man Clive James – told with his trademark erudition and humour. May Week Was In June is the third book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with North Face of Soho.
. . In the case of Clive James, the volumes now in existence are too few. If the final tally puts him up there with Marcel Proust, so much the better.’ – Financial Times.
The Incomparable Hildegarde ' trailed clouds of sultry glamour from Berlin and Paris , of the Blue Angel , Mistinguett and Arletty , foreshadowing more recent divas - Dalida , Madonna - and she liked to lay claim to this quasi - royal ...
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One details James's childhood adventures in the suburbs of post-war Sydney, his excited arrival in London as a young man and aspiring poet, and the campus life at Cambridge that led to him falling in ...