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‘He writes like a prophet and he can satirise folly in high places with a touch as elegant as Oscar Wilde . . . There isn’t a word wasted’ Daily Mail
‘A well-balanced show of wit, intellect and glorious observation’ Sunday Times
‘No one wields a joke more punchily than he does. And the wide capacity for warmth towards all sorts of experience – from Billy Connolly to Primo Levi – is impressively exemplary in our culturally divided and divisive times’ Observer
‘Very funny . . . breathtakingly good literary essays. Mr James is excellent on television – when he is on it, or reviewing it’ Sunday Telegraph
‘James’s hilarity is often a powerful support for his argument, but as well as vintage Jamesian japery there are many excellent things in this collection’ New Statesman & Society
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Clive James is the author of more than forty books. As well as essays, he has 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 helped to found the independent television production company Watchmaker and the multimedia personal website www.clivejames.com. His book Cultural Amnesia was widely noticed in all the English-speaking countries and is currently being translated into Chinese. His popular Radio 4 series A Point of View has been published in volume form. 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.
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