Clive James
Clive James was the author of more than forty books. As well as essays, he published collections of literary and television criticism, travel writing, verse and novels, plus five volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week Was In June, North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity. As a television performer he appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the Postcard series of travel documentaries. He published several poetry collections, including the Sunday Times bestseller Sentenced to Life, and a translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. He holds honorary doctorates from Sydney University and the University of East Anglia. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013, an Officer of the Order of Australia. He died in 2019.
Books by Clive James
The Fire of Joy
The River in the Sky
Cultural Amnesia
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Injury Time
Brrm! Brrm!
Flying Visits
Glued To The Box
Other Passports
Clive James On Television
Visions Before Midnight
Poetry Notebook
Sentenced to Life
Collected Poems
Gate of Lilacs
Opal Sunset
From the Land of Shadows
The Divine Comedy
Unreliable Memoirs
The Crystal Bucket
The Dreaming Swimmer
At the Pillars of Hercules
The Metropolitan Critic
The Remake
Even As We Speak
The Book of My Enemy
The Meaning of Recognition
Reliable Essays
Snakecharmers In Texas
A Point of View
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Angels Over Elsinore
The Blaze of Obscurity
The Revolt of the Pendulum
May Week Was In June
Falling Towards England
North Face of Soho
The Artificial Horizon
Cultural Amnesia
Poems From The Book of My Enemy
Always Unreliable
Brilliant Creatures
Series by Clive James