Author: Clive James

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 lif...

An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with te...

Clive 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,...

A 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 a...

By turns hilarious, insightful and tender, the voice of Clive James defined a generation of writers. His memoirs, amongst the best-loved and acclai...

In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some...

Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed an...

Clive James, a true polymath, became a generation-defining voice as a broadcaster, a critic, a poet and an author. Among his greatest achievements,...

With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultu...

A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and T...

Collecting verse written in the years 20082011, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower sees Clive James approach his later years with the same technical versa...

This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his lifetime The TimesClive James was a life-long admirer of the work of Philip La...

Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the worlds mos...

In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are...

'James's confrontation with his approaching death is nothing short of inspirational' Joan Bakewell, IndependentThe publication of Clive James's Se...

''One of the most important and influential writers of our time'' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has wri...

Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading À la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half ...

Since its initial publication, Poetry Notebook has become a must-read for any lover of poetry. Somewhat of an iconoclast, Clive James gets to the h...

From 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 Ta...