The first volume of Clive James's autobiography.'I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment,...
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.
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.
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 ...
Part Clive James on TV and part Clive James on TV, it tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive on top form both then and now, and proves -- once and for all -- that Clive has a way with words ... whatever the medium.
Gina Frangello tells the morally complex story of her adulterous relationship with a lover and her shortcomings as a mother, and in doing so, highlights the forces that shaped, silenced, and shamed her: everyday misogyny, puritanical ...